Culture
Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, many have examined the European descriptions of India as reflections of the power/knowledge nexus in the colonial state. Few, however, have capitalized on Said's insight that whereas the Orientalist discourse appears to be a description of a place in the world (viz. the Orient) it actually is a description of how the West has experienced the Asian cultures. This panel will present a research program which studies the West and its cultural experience by approaching Orientalism as a description of that experience. Since Orientalism developed in continuous interaction with, and as a part of the growth of, the social sciences, both making claims about man and society, the latter cannot possibly be an alternative to Orientalism. Rather, the social sciences reflect the West's experience of itself. To understand the way the western culture has described both itself and others is to begin understanding this culture. The challenge of......
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