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Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studies and Asian studies. Traditional Oriental studies in Europe is today generally focused on the ...
Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. [1] The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics.
Pages in category "Oriental studies" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
26th – Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Congress of Orientalists : New Delhi 4–10 January 1964, ed. R N Dandekar (Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Inst. 1970). 27th – Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Congress of Orientalists. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13–19 August 1967.
2009, Neville Meaney, “The problem of nationalism and race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II” [5] 2010, Michael Walsh, "Voices from the north: linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia" [6] [7] 2011, Bonnie McDougall, “Ambiguities of power: The social space of translation relationships” [8]
Beginning in 1960, the society has published a scholarly journal, entitled Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia from 1960 to 2019, and JOSAH: Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities from the 2020-21 issue. [7] It is the oldest continuing Asia-focused journal in Australasia.
Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is a book of political theory and comparative history by Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988) published by Yale University Press in 1957. The book offers an explanation for the despotic governments in "Oriental" societies, where control of water was necessary for irrigation and flood-control.
Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. [ 1 ] The term Indology (in German, Indologie ) is often associated with German scholarship, and is used more commonly in departmental titles in German ...