460 pages
33 illustrations
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