Exam 3: Thinkers and Movements in Structuralism, Orientalism, and Historiography

"The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants".who said

..........may refer to a range of perceptions and attitudes evinced by the western scholarship towards the Indian civilisation in the 18th and early 19th centuries and since then to a wider intellectual exercise at global level to study and interpret the East in relation to the West.

The Asiatic society was founded in ……………

The father of orientalism was ……………………

The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….

…........is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s.

Who was the author of 'Why History'?

Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.

Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….with structural anthropology in France.

Who wrote the book 'The Practice of History'?

Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study the facts"?

Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?

Who was the author of the book 'The Tudor Revolution in Government?'

The Elementary Structures of Kinship was the work of ……………..

The most famous thinkers associated with …………. include the linguist Roman Jakobson, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..

…...........'s book is The Order of Things.

….........is an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place, and circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated creation.

………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication.

The term..........itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the "structuralist movement", which spurred the work of such thinkers as Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas.