“In this paper, I illustrate the way one Aboriginal artist challenged what he perceived as an essentialised concept of Aboriginality, by rejecting rainbow serpent iconography.”
essentialized
simple past tense and past participle of essentialize
“Whatever ethnicity might be, the problem lies with its essentialized all-embracing interpretation, and this must be put aside.”
“According to Said, orientalism allowed Europe to establish itself as the superior and the norm, which justified its dominance over the essentialized Orient.”