Genealogies of Orientalism

Illustrations    

Preface    

Introduction: Genealogies of Orientalism 

Edmund Burke III and David Prochaska

Part 1. History

1. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge 

David Ludden

2. The Command of Language and the Language of Command     

Bernard S. Cohn

3. The Sociology of Islam: The French Tradition

Edmund Burke III

4. Scientific Production and Position in the Intellectual and Political Fields: The Cases of Augustin Berque and Joseph Desparmet     

Fanny Colonna

Part 2. Culture

5. The "Passionate Nomad" Reconsidered: A European Woman in l'Algérie française (Isabelle Eberhardt, 1877<EN>1904)     

Julia Clancy-Smith

6. The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counterinsurgency   

Jenny Sharpe

7. Telling Photos

David Prochaska

8. Ethnography and Exhibitionism at the Expositions Universelles

Zeynep Çelik and Leila Kinney

Part 3. Power

9. Orientalist Counterpoints and Postcolonial Politics: Caste, Community, and Culture in Tamil India

Nicholas B. Dirks

10. Taboo Memories and Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews 

Ella Shohat

11. Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism  

Arif Dirlik

12. Profiteering Women and Primitive Communists: Propriety and Scandal in Interwar Japanese Studies of Okinawa     

Alan S. Christy

Source Acknowledgments 

Contributors     

Index