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Noun: cultural studies
  1. A field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that was initially developed by British academics in the late 1950s, '60s and '70s, and has been subsequently taken up and transformed by scholars from many different disciplines around the world.

Type of: arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts

Encyclopedia: Cultural studies