Orientalism is treated as a taken-for-granted phenomenon like capitalism and law

Evidence

Nor is there an account of the wherefore of Orientalism. Like liberalism, capitalism, secular humanism, anthropology, science, economics, and law, Orientalism is a taken-for-granted phenomenon. It just went wrong, somewhere, somehow. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 322

Categorization

• XREF: This echoes the institution-emergence literature (Milgrom) that asks what conditions produce and sustain institutions rather than treating them as background.