Anthology selection masks the Orientalist’s editorial censorship as natural typicality

Evidence

Without what he called spirit and style, the mind could “get lost in archaeology”: he was referring to a sort of regimented antiquarianism by which the exotic and the strange would get formulated into lexicons, codes, and finally clichés of the kind he was to ridicule in the Dictionnaire des idées reçues. Under the influence of such an attitude the world would be “regulated like a college. Teachers will be the law. Everyone will be in uniform.” — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scientific validity in Orientalist writing requires canceling the human content of its subjects; Assertions of scholarly objectivity mask the partisan premises of Orientalist discourse.; Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487 (+2 more)

Related

• Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism operates as radical realism, enumerative rhetoric, and paranoia. (similarity 0.85)
• Scientific validity in Orientalist writing requires canceling the human content of its subjects (similarity 0.84)
• Indo-European philology grounded European languages in a harmless Oriental source. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism functioned like bureaucracy, treating humans as occasions for files (similarity 0.81)
• Oriental tales circulated widely in English literature across two centuries (similarity 0.81)
• Classification into an encyclopedia entry neutralizes the threat of heresy (similarity 0.81)
• Assertions of scholarly objectivity mask the partisan premises of Orientalist discourse. (similarity 0.81)
• Academic Orientalist expertise legitimizes rather than corrects crude stereotypes (similarity 0.80)
• Policy jargon like modernization and stability masks old Orientalist stereotypes (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalist aesthetics repress affect to achieve clinical exactness of detail. (similarity 0.79)
• Naming someone an Oriental was also an act of derogation (similarity 0.79)
• The word ‘Oriental’ alone invoked a fixed, unchallengeable body of knowledge (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Assertions of scholarly objectivity mask the partisan premises of Orientalist discourse. #corroborates (0.90)
• Scientific validity in Orientalist writing requires canceling the human content of its subjects #corroborates (0.85)
• Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés #expands (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487