Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rendering or becoming oriental in character.
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Examples
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Venkataraman's work is not meant to be seen here as the definitive example of the orientalization of weavers.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001
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This movement from one sort of knowledge production to another, from a type of colonization of weavers to their orientalization has also factored into secondary source material on the history of the handloom weaving industry and its workers in South India.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001
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And, as an orientalization of the industry might be expected to produce, there are the careful references to the correlation between cloth and market.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001
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The style may be said to have arisen from the orientalization of Roman art, and itself largely contributed to the formation of the Saracenic or
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Secondly, the propriety of orientalization, or facing Jerusalem, was in those days a favorite notion.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
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Dizzy's orientalization of Queen Victoria into an Empress angered him, as it angered many more.
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902
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Sami initially sees his love for Muntaha in poetic terms, likening her beauty and allure to the Sumerian artefacts in front of which he first encounters her, an orientalization that is later echoed by Gabor.
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We will now return to what we call the South, but what was known for many years as the "Main" Building, the old plan of grand structures to face the East, just as the capitols at Washington and Raleigh, were faced under the influence of orientalization was soon abandoned, and the European plan of a quadrangle -- in old times a veritable prison in which the students were locked at night, giving rise to the expression "being in quad," was adopted, probably at the suggestion of Dr. Caldwell and Prof. Harris, who were educated at Princeton.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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We will now return to what we call the South, but what was known for many years as the "Main" Building, the old plan of grand structure to face the East, just as the capitols at Washington and Raleigh, were faced under the influence of orientalization was soon abandoned, and the European plan of a quadrangle -- in old times a veritable prison in which the students were locked at night, giving rise to the expression "being in quad," was adopted, probably at the suggestion of Dr. Caldwell and Prof. Page 11
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Sometimes, China’s participation amounted to what Dirlik has called “self-orientalization.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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