1. Academia
    1. Foucault
      1. knowledge/power
        1. the way we can challenge power is to challenge the power that produce the dominating knowledge
    2. impreialism and academia
      1. knowledge production as a response to the need of imperial expansion
        1. anthropology
        2. geography
        3. oriental studies
  2. Case Example
    1. Ethnocentric representations of the Other in anthropology
    2. contributions of Malinowski
      1. methodologically
        1. armed-chair scholars
          1. scholars collecting data through corresponding with missionaries
      2. theoretically
        1. emphasis on differences vs. on sameness
  3. Could an orient escape 'oriental thinking/perspective'
    1. orients trained in the west are usul. elites
    2. professionals study east are still holding fears/fantasies over east, even for orients itself