Russian Area Studies

Tue Sep 17 10:54:37 UTC 2002

At one time the term "stranovedenie" was the latest fashion and everyone was saying how meaningless
language teaching was without it. The term may have been coined on the basis of German
"Landeskunde". Landeskunde in German does not have very high prestige, and, in the end, neither does
stranovedenie in Russian, being thought rather shallow and descriptive rather than a "proper
discipline".
In Russian the general term with prestige is kul'turologiya. There is, for example, a kul'turologiya
section in the August 2003 MAPRYAL Congress in St Petersburg.
Andrew Jameson
Email: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com

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From: "Charles Mills" <cmills at KNOX.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:42 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Area Studies

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