Definition of "orientalization" [orientalization]

• The act of rendering or becoming oriental in character. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And, as an orientalization of the industry might be expected to produce, there are the careful references to the correlation between cloth and market."
• "Venkataraman's work is not meant to be seen here as the definitive example of the orientalization of weavers."
• "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."