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orientalist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | specialiser, specialist, specializer |
| Derivation | orientalism |
Examples of orientalist
orientalist
The orientalist view drove policy and diplomacy for much of the last century.
From the forbes.com
As an orientalist, he was unable to adapt himself to the new methods opened by Bopp.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Orientalist stereotyping, as Edward Said has well argued, leads easily to demonisation.
From the economist.com
Khalid's smiling face was a blank canvas on to which I could project orientalist fears.
From the guardian.co.uk
He bought the Scots Magazine in 1801, and John Leyden, the orientalist, became its editor.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Neither does the orientalist mention of feng-shui on the first page.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
The backside, facing the Golden Horn, has an orientalist structure and verses from the Koran.
From the style.time.com
Firth was accompanied neither by an orientalist literary companion, nor endorsed by state-funding.
From the telegraph.co.uk
This was when Aleppo was firmly on the grand tour of every self-respecting European orientalist.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A specialist in oriental subjects
- (orientalism) the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people
- (orientalism) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations; "orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas"
- (Orientalists) Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer term, Asian studies. ...
- Orientalism is primarily a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists.
- (Orientalism (book)) Orientalism is the 1978 book by Edward Said that has been highly influential in postcolonial studies. In the book, Said writes that "Orientalism" is a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the Middle East. ...
- (orientalism) In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East
- (Orientalism) a cultural-historical perspective on how representations of non-Western peoples and places have been mainly conceived and authorized by Westerners. ...
- (Orientalism) (Said), discourse on the East, created by the West which has functioned as an instrument of power.
