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... Department of Anthropology Victoria University DRAFT ESSAY - ORTNER/ORIENTALISM Orientalism is a discourse that Ortner shapes her article around. Though she defines the explanatory model as one of the average European that plays a minor role in her explanatory framework. Not something you'd expect an Anthropologist to spend a lot of time on explaining. Though however minor the discourse is, it is central to what I see as her primary goal, which is too display the continuing value of Geertz's conception of meaning as central to culture, and of Foucault's conception of power as central to culture, and more importantly how these two ideas can be used in unison to create cultural constructions of agency. I intend to make clear that though I agree with Ortner that Orientalism does play significant but minor role in the interpretation of culture through the eyes of Europeans, it is not confined solely
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