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oriental studies

vr.tr.oriental-studies · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain oriental studies as a historical and current academic field, describe its subfields and institutions, present the Orientalism critique and responses with attribution, and support students and researchers.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain oriental studies as a historical and current academic field, describe its subfields and institutions, present the Orientalism critique and responses with attribution, and support students and researchers.

The academic study of the languages, histories, cultures, religions and societies of Asia and North Africa, historically grouped under the term oriental studies and now more often organised as Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, Semitic studies, Coptology, Siberian studies and other regional and disciplinary fields; the term and the field have been criticised for colonial framing, most influentially in the debate over Orientalism, and are described here with positions attributed.

What it is for: Study of Asian and North African languages and cultures.

It can be explain the field; describe subfields; present critiques with attribution; support students.

Distinguishing features

Philological roots

Regional subfields

Contested term

Institutional history

What it looks like

Not physical; an academic field.

How it is recognised

Study of Asia and North Africa in Western academia

Asian, Middle Eastern, Semitic and other studies

Area studies is the broader category; scholarship from the regions themselves has its own traditions

Related models

is a kind of - category

area studies

is related to - romanisation used in the field

Latin script

is related to - a subject of study

Indian religions

is related to - the colonial context of the field

imperialism

In practice

Families and kinds

Middle Eastern and Islamic studies

East and South Asian studies

Semitic studies and Coptology

Central Asian and Siberian studies

historical orientalist scholarship

Standards and regulation

Academic standards and peer review

Research ethics

University programme accreditation

Failure modes and hazards

Using the term uncritically

Ignoring scholarship from the regions studied

Presenting the Orientalism debate one-sidedly

Also called

Islamic revealed knowledge and heritageSiberian studiesAsian studiesSemitic studiesCoptologyHong Kong studiesSouth Asia studiesMiddle Eastern studiesMandaean studiesPalestine studiesoriental languagesNear Eastern studiessinologyBahá'í studiesArabic studiesKalmykologytungustologyyakutologyOttoman studiesKorean studiesTurkologyIslamic studiesJapanese studiesAustronesian studiesCentral Asian studiesSoutheast Asian studiesMaltese studiesAramaic studiesSyriac studiesOman studiesJian jia xue paiHakka studiesTaiwan studieskangakuDunhuangologyArabic literaturestudy of JangarNorth Korean studiesBashkir studiesIslamic worldview

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Where this came from

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Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What oriental studies is.

Attribution.

Concept

Concept and terminology.

Concept

Concept.

  1. What is oriental studies, why is the term contested, and how is the field organised today? definition
  2. Is the presentation attributed and neutral? boundary

Subfields

Subfields.

Subfields

Subfields.

  1. What subfields such as Middle Eastern, Asian, Semitic and Siberian studies exist, and how are they organised? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific subfield? action
Debate The Orientalism debate.

Attribution.

Critique

Critique.

Critique

Critique.

  1. What is the critique of Orientalism, and what did it argue about the field, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits postcolonial studies? action

Responses

Responses.

Responses

Responses.

  1. How have scholars responded to the critique, and how has the field changed, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation balanced? boundary
Study Studying and researching.

Practice.

Programmes

Programmes.

Programmes

Programmes.

  1. How are programmes structured, and what language and methodological training do they involve? provenance
  2. Which entry fits higher education? action

Sources

Sources and scholarship from the regions.

Sources

Sources.

  1. How can scholarship from the regions themselves be found and integrated? action
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the field develop from early philology through colonial institutions to modern area studies? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of scholarship? action

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can the field and its critiques be taught? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each subfield be a separate entry?
  • How should institutions be linked?
  • How should the critique be attributed?
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