After Orientalism : Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-Appropriations.
Pouillion, François.
After Orientalism : Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-Appropriations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (303 pages) - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; v.2 . - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements (Pouillon and Vatin) -- Preface (Pouillon and Vatin) -- Part 1. Alternative Historiographies of Orientalism -- Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History (Pouillon) -- The Real Discourses of Orientalism (Irwin) -- The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies of Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient (Buskens and Dupret) -- The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exoticism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals (Rhani) -- Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History (Marglin) -- "It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples' Ways of Life" (Herrenschmidt) -- Part 2. Other Imperialisms -- The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship (Eldem) -- "Go West": Variations on Kemalist Orientalism (Szurek) -- Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin (Dudoignon) -- Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism (Allès) -- Part 3. Recovering Non-indigenous Heritages -- The Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869-2014): A Disoriented Heritage? (Leturcq) -- A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amîn as a Reader of Edward Lane (Perrin) -- Mohamed Galal (1906-1943): A Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist (Hopkins) -- Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya: A Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge (Lahmar) -- Part 4. Inventing Orientalist Traditions -- Arab Receptions of the Arabian Nights: Between Contemptuous Dismissal and Recognition (Larzul) -- The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet (de Pommereau) -- Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles (Nicholas). Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? (Volait) -- After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals (Vatin) -- List of Contributors -- Index.
This book offers an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.
9789004282537
Orientalism--Congresses.
East and West--Congresses.
Middle East--Civilization--Congresses.
Electronic books.
DS61.85.C6513 2011
303.48/2182105
After Orientalism : Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-Appropriations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (303 pages) - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; v.2 . - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements (Pouillon and Vatin) -- Preface (Pouillon and Vatin) -- Part 1. Alternative Historiographies of Orientalism -- Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History (Pouillon) -- The Real Discourses of Orientalism (Irwin) -- The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies of Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient (Buskens and Dupret) -- The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exoticism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals (Rhani) -- Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History (Marglin) -- "It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples' Ways of Life" (Herrenschmidt) -- Part 2. Other Imperialisms -- The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship (Eldem) -- "Go West": Variations on Kemalist Orientalism (Szurek) -- Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin (Dudoignon) -- Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism (Allès) -- Part 3. Recovering Non-indigenous Heritages -- The Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869-2014): A Disoriented Heritage? (Leturcq) -- A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amîn as a Reader of Edward Lane (Perrin) -- Mohamed Galal (1906-1943): A Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist (Hopkins) -- Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya: A Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge (Lahmar) -- Part 4. Inventing Orientalist Traditions -- Arab Receptions of the Arabian Nights: Between Contemptuous Dismissal and Recognition (Larzul) -- The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet (de Pommereau) -- Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles (Nicholas). Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? (Volait) -- After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals (Vatin) -- List of Contributors -- Index.
This book offers an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.
9789004282537
Orientalism--Congresses.
East and West--Congresses.
Middle East--Civilization--Congresses.
Electronic books.
DS61.85.C6513 2011
303.48/2182105