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Noun Concept
Categories: Regional geography, Humanities, Cultural anthropology, Area studies, Ethnography
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area studies  area study  regional studies
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An interdisciplinary field of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region. Open English WordNet
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An interdisciplinary field of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region. Open English WordNet
Area studies are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions. Wikipedia
Interdisciplinary fields of research Wikidata
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Other large and important programs followed Ford's—most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U.S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students. Open English WordNet
IS A
humanistic discipline
academic discipline
cultural studies
interdisciplinary science
HAS KIND
classics
Orientalism
Soviet and Communist studies
Australian Studies
Hungarian studies
+16 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Appalachian studies
East Asian studies
Eastern European studies
Eskimology
DIFFERENT FROM
regional science
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
domestic studies
Open English WordNet
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area studies
Wikipedia
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area studies
Wikidata
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area studies
Wikipedia Redirections
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Area Studies, area study
Wikidata Alias
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regional studies

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