Post-war Orientalist writing dispersed authority across committees, service, and sensation

Evidence

In their time, from the end of World War I till the early sixties, three principal forms of Orientalist writing were radically transformed: the encyclopedia, the anthology, the personal record. Their authority was redistributed or dispersed or dissipated: to a committee of experts (The Encyclopedia of Islam, The Cambridge History of Islam), to a lower order of service (elementary instruction in language, which would prepare one not for diplomacy, as was the case with Sacy’s Chrestomathie, but for the study of sociology, economics, or history), to the realm of sensational revelation (having more to do with personalities or governments—Lawrence is the obvious example—than with knowledge). — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 723

Categorization

• DEFINE: Maps the institutional transformation of Orientalist knowledge production — a mechanism of authority redistribution central to the Scaffolding toolkit.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 723