Oriental studies

E771399

academic discipline area studies field social science field

Oriental studies is an academic field focused on the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures of Asian and Middle Eastern societies.

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Label	Occurrences
Oriental studies canonical	2
Sinology	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic discipline ⓘ area studies field ⓘ social science field ⓘ
aimsTo	interpret primary sources ⓘ understand non‑Western cultures ⓘ
criticizedFor	Eurocentrism ⓘ Orientalism ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	anthropology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ art history ⓘ history ⓘ linguistics ⓘ philology ⓘ religious studies ⓘ
focusesOn	Asian societies ⓘ Middle Eastern societies ⓘ
hasMethod	archival research ⓘ fieldwork ⓘ historical criticism ⓘ textual analysis ⓘ
hasSubfield	Assyriology NERFINISHED ⓘ Egyptology NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebrew and Jewish studies ⓘ Indology ⓘ Iranian studies NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic studies ⓘ Japanology ⓘ Korean studies NERFINISHED ⓘ Semitic studies ⓘ Sinology NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkology NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicallyAssociatedWith	European universities NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial scholarship ⓘ missionary activity ⓘ
influencedBy	biblical studies ⓘ classical studies ⓘ comparative linguistics ⓘ philology ⓘ
overlapsWith	comparative literature ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ postcolonial studies ⓘ religious studies ⓘ
relatedTo	African studies ⓘ Asian studies ⓘ Indology NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic studies ⓘ Japanology NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle Eastern studies ⓘ Near Eastern studies NERFINISHED ⓘ Semitic studies ⓘ Sinology ⓘ
studies	cultures ⓘ histories ⓘ languages ⓘ literatures ⓘ
taughtAt	research institutes ⓘ universities ⓘ

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Friedrich Rückert → fieldOfWork → Oriental studies ⓘ

Histoire de l’astronomie indienne et orientale → subjectArea → Oriental studies ⓘ

Science and Civilisation in China → academicDiscipline → Oriental studies ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinology