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Orientalism

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The dominant definition of Orientalism was introduced by the Arab-American scholar, Edward Said (1935–2003), through his major publication in 1978. Said’s Orientalism exposes the European strategy of domination that sought to consolidate and justify its colonial power through the production of knowledge, which defined the East as the antitheses of the West. This dichotomy of “Us” versus “Them” was structured ontologically in order to institute a “superior and progressive” European identity over and against a “static and exotic” Orient. His methodology scrutinizes the objectification of Eastern and non-European cultures and has contributed greatly to postcolonial studies among various other disciplines.

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Orientalism and Latin America

Said predicted that Orientalism would expand its reach to address unequal relations of power across various geographies. Whereas representations surrounding these relations were originally emphasized in Europe and the Middle East,...

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Londono, S. (2016). Orientalism. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_289-1

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