This
course takes up the issue of examining culture in the background of the
postcolonial project. It examines the history of Orientalism, the discipline,
and Orientalism, the book as also try to reconceptualise the
postcolonial project of attending to cultural difference. The course introduces
students to a novel way of thinking about culture and cultural difference by
using the hypothesis of “culture as configuration of learning”.
Unit
5: Orientalism: The Project
- William Jones and theory of
linguistic monogenesis
- German Romanticism and the search
for the Ursprache
- The Burke-Hastings debate and
Cultural relativism
- Suttee (Sati) and the search for
authentic custom
- Codification of Hindu Law
Unit
6: Orientalism: The Problem
- Orientalism as a Discourse
- Edward Said’s Orientalism
and its impact
- Colonial forms of knowledge
- Anthropology and ‘the other’
Unit
7: Re-evaluating Orientalism
- Disciplinary critiques of Orientalism
- Orientalism as cognitive limit of
the West
Unit
8: Towards a Philosophy of Culture
- ‘Knowing that’ and ‘knowing how’
- Anthropology as science of action
Detailed
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