ISBN:
9781138795143
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (247 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Parallel Title:
Print version Reassessing Orientalism : Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War
DDC:
303.48/218210509045
Abstract:
Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations and techniques in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies - Western, Soviet and oriental orientologies - were interlocked, in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; that the different orientologies did n
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; 1.Introduction: interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War era ; The concept of interlocking Oriental studies; Chapters; Notes; 2.Orientologies compared: US and Soviet imaginaries of the modern Middle East ; Missionary Orientalism in America and Russia before World War II; Interwar transformations in US and Soviet Orientalism; World War II and the rise of the Middle East's geostrategic importance; Globalizing knowledge and US intellectual approaches to the Middle East
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Popularizing Orientalism in the USSRAmerican popular Orientalism and distance from the East; Incorporation of the East; Conclusion; Notes; 3.From tents to citadels: Oriental archaeology and textual studies in Soviet Kazakhstan ; Searching for the Aryan legacy in Central Asia: early expeditions in Kazakhstan, 1867-1920s; The establishment of academic expeditions in Kazakhstan; The nativization of Kazakh archaeology in the late 1940s and 1950s; Kimal' Akishev and the "Otrar Catastrophe"; The fate of Islamic architecture: the Yasawi shrine; Conclusion; Notes
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4.'Ulama'-Orientalists: Madrasa graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies Colleagues of the old regime in a new institute; The role of 'ulama' in establishing a national cultural heritagefor Uzbekistan; "Ended up in the scientific institution by accident"? Intrigues against the'Ulama'-Orientalists; "You can now obtain any academic degree without defense": thedomullas' dissertations and publications; Jadids in Uzbek Orientology; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes
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5."Because of our commercial intercourse and … bringing about a better understanding between the two peoples": a history of Japanese studies in the United States Orientalism and its critics; Japan and Orientalism; Orientalism and the history of Japanese studies in the United States; Institutionalization of Japanese studies: pre-World War II; Studying the enemy: war and occupation, area studies, and anthropology; Training for military government; ""National character" studies; The Cold War: area studies, modernization, and dissent; Since the 1970s; Conclusion; Notes
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6.Competing national Orientalisms: the cases of Belgrade and Sarajevo The institutional development of Oriental studies in Serbia; The institutional development of Oriental Studies in Bosnia; Competing Orientalisms: polemics and debates between Sarajevo and Belgrade; Conclusion; Notes; 7.Propaganda for the East, scholarship for the West: Soviet strategies at the 1960 International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow ; Soviet Oriental studies and the East; Returning to the international arena: the Soviets in Cambridge, 1954
Description / Table of Contents:
Coordinating Soviet Orientology: the first All-Union Conference ofOrientalists, Tashkent, 1957
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Description based upon print version of record
