About the origin of the word "Orientalists"...

Jul 21, 2005 15:50

To quote from the exhibition at the Walters Art Gallery, in Baltimore, Maryland; _They came to be known as "orientalisme," which originally denoted the study of languages, literature, and customs, both past and present, of people living beyond the sphere of European influence._

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