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In the humanities and social sciences, area studies is interdisciplinary the food & drug administration and scholarship on to the particular geographical or cultural region. A term is primarily as a general description for what come, in the practice of scholarship, several heterogeneous fields of the food and drug administration. Fields come defined otherwise from either either university to university, & from department to department, however park locality-studies fields include:

Middle Eastern studies (or Near Eastern studies) Asian studies East Asian studies South Asian studies African studies Latin American studies South American studies Central American studies Caribbean studies American studies (in the United States this has traditionally referred primarily to North America and especially the U.S.)

More interdisciplinary locate fields like women's studies (also known as gender studies), and Ethnic Studies (including African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Native American Studies) are not part of area studies but are sometimes included in discussion along with it.

Counterpoint a term cultural studies.

University of California at Berkeley South/Southeast Asia Library
Resources, both print and electronic, for South Asia and Southeast Asia, including Afghanistan, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

Duke University East Asian Collection
Print and electronic resources for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Asian-American Studies, with resources for elementary and secondary school teachers.

Library of Congress Asian Reading Room
Recent publications, links, and a bibliography of Korean works. Collections are particularly strong in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and southeast Asian materials.

University of California at Berkeley Digital Chinese Library
Supports the Center for Chinese Studies with an online reference desk containing selected Internet resources on China, and other resources.

Rutgers University East Asian Library
Library and collections information and a research guide for East Asian Studies that includes print and electronic resources.

Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room
Contains general reference guides, specific guides for Puerto Rico, Spain and the United States, and an events calendar.

California Cooperative Latin American Collection Development Group (CALAFIA)
A consortium of primarily academic California libraries, designed to bring together disparate collections in Latin American Studies.

University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library
Access to the Digital China Information Center, the Japan Information Center, an index of Chinese journals, and Internet links to library catalogs and academic resources.

Schoharie County Historical Society Library
Historical and genealogical materials for Schoharie County, New York and vicinity. Library information and search engine.

University of Texas at Austin Benson Latin American Collection
Includes collection information, online resources and guides, and online exhibits, with versions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.


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