Replying to LO25625 --
Dear LO'ers,
Just a thought.
We often use the word 'orientation'. Orientation as a direction to go to,
or a mirror to enable a look to ourselves.
The word 'orientation' ha sit roots in the 16th century, when cartography
started as a new science and maps and atlasses became popular for to the
great public. These maps had the East on the upper side of the map, North
was on the left side. The East, or 'orient' was the direction towhich the
map was projected. And that is where the meaning of 'orientation' comes
from.
In the next centuries it became costum to project the North on top of
maps.
If we project ourselves to the West, we could use the word
'occidentation'. If we like to project ourselves to other directions than
the West, we may speak of 'anti-occidentation', of which orientation is
only one of the many possibilities.
dr. Leo D. Minnigh
l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl
Library Technical University Delft
PO BOX 98, 2600 MG Delft, The Netherlands
Tel.: 31 15 2782226
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