African studies

field of academic study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies
Intangible academic_discipline Q38157
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African studies

Summary

African studies is an academic discipline[1]. It draws 63 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #262 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • African studies's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • African studies's GND ID is recorded as 4122766-9[4].
  • African studies's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119418155[5].
  • African studies's subclass of is recorded as area studies[6].
  • African studies's Commons category is recorded as African studies[7].
  • African studies's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07x0yp[8].
  • African studies's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph117030[9].
  • African studies's topic's main category is recorded as Category:African studies[10].
  • African studies's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300389815[11].
  • African studies's PSH ID is recorded as 6710[12].
  • African studies's facet of is recorded as Africa[13].
  • African studies's described by source is recorded as The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought[14].
  • African studies's Classification of Instructional Programs code is recorded as 05.0101[15].
  • African studies's is the study of is recorded as Africa[16].
  • African studies's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1841819[17].
  • African studies's practiced by is recorded as Africanist[18].
  • African studies's Quora topic ID is recorded as African-Studies[19].
  • African studies's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as african-studies[20].
  • African studies's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[21].
  • African studies's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294896988[22].
  • African studies's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 79416576[23].
  • African studies's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3866149[24].
  • African studies's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as afrikanistika[25].
  • African studies's Proleksis enciklopedija ID is recorded as 7078[26].
  • African studies's UNBIS Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1000103[27].

Why It Matters

African studies draws 63 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #262 of 1,010).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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