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