RLG205H5 Lecture : lecture 1
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Hindu -> arabic + persia work for geographic marker. Orientalism: is primarily a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of. Eastern cultures in the west by writers, designers and artists. the character or characteristics of the oriental peoples. Partly responsible for creating hinduism + changed some practices. Warren hastings was the first governor-general of british india. Lex loci act in 1845: land laws based on british common law. These laws created hinduism because it forced people to choose if they hindu or not. A stipulative definition is a type of definition in which a new or currently-existing term is given a specific meaning for the purposes of argument or discussion in a given context. Hindu is a modern concept so we will use many properties to define. Prototype theory is a mode of graded categorization in cognitive science, where some members of a category are more central than others.