After Orientalism - Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-Appropriations

This book offers an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.

About the author

François Pouillon is an anthropologist at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), specializing in the Arab World. He has published widely on orientalist painting and the history of travels in the Middle East, and is editor of a Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française (2008).

Jean-Claude Vatin, is a political scientist at the CNRS, Paris, working on the Islamic World. He has published several books on the Maghreb and on politics in the Middle-East and was among the first scholars in France to look critically at the Western knowledge of the Orient.

Product details

• Assisted by: François Pouillion (Editor), Jean-Claude Vatin (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2014
• EAN: 9789004282520
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28252-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and So
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories