Competing Visions of Area Studies in the Interwar Period: The School of Oriental Languages in Berlin

<p class="MStandard">Focusing on the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin, the article explores competing visions on the role of area studies between two prominent Orientalists in the interwar period. It shows that tensions between blue-sky research, applied research and the prov...

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Main Author: Larissa Schmid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies 2015-05-01
Series:Middle East : Topics & Arguments
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Online Access:http://meta-journal.net/article/view/2787