In spite of growing globalisation there remains in the world a split between the West & the rest. Jalmar & Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West's attempts to understand its relations with both its monotheistic others - Muslims & Jews.
In spite of growing globalisation there remains in the world a split between the West & the rest. Jalmar & Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West's attempts to understand its relations with both its monotheistic others - Muslims & Jews.
"Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek-Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and mod…
When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahman…
Europe's India tracks the changing place of India in the European imagination over three centuries, by looking closely at a varied cast of actors and sites of interaction, from ports and coastal enclaves to inland courts. The opening of the Cape Route by Vasco da Gama in 1498 cr…