area studies

disciplines that study different regions

In the humanities and social sciences, area studies are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are, in the practice of scholarship, many heterogeneous fields of research. Fields are defined differently from university to university, and from department to department, but common area-studies fields include:African studiesAfrican American studiesEgyptian studiesEgyptologyNigerian studiesSouth African studies
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