If there are Egyptologists, are there Americanologists?

Question

AND, how do you change your default picture for this thing? I've tried everything I could think of.

Answer 1

Short answer (already mentioned)-- drop the "olog" ['study'] part and say "Americanists".

True, there are many academic disciplines that end with "-ology" --which provides the convenient ending "-ologist" for an academic IN that field. But there are many that do not.

Most of the major fields of "Oriental studies" began to adopt such labels in the 19th century:
esp. for the (Ancient) Near East -- Egyptology (Egypt), Assyriology ("Assyrian" but actually includes Babylonian, and Sumerian), Sumerology (Sumer), Hittitology (Hittites) . . . in the 20th century you could add "Ugaritology"
For the Far East there was the field of Sinology (China)

More recently some have added "Japanology" and "Koreanology"

But this way of naming the academic fields is by no means universal whether we're looking at Mathematics, History or the study of NON-Eastern cultures, from Africa to Europe to the Amercas. (In fact, a number of Near Eastern fields do not have such a name either -- we have Arabists & Arab or Islamic studies... no related "-ology"; "Hebraists" for Hebrew; no special "ology" for most of Syria-Palestine. And a general term for a scholar in all these areas would be an "Orientalist".)

The most common way to name newer fields when there is not a standard "ology"-name is simply with an English equivalent like "...studies". This is commonly used for studies in a particular geographic region, and can be used for larger or smaller fields -- "German studies", "European studies", "Eurasian studies" (typically beginning with an adjective with the "-(a)n" suffix). So you might have "American studies", "Carribean studies", "Mayan studies", etc.

Now, what to call the PEOPLE who study in these fields, since "ologist" is not available? The most common option in probably "-ist", usually to the "-an" forms above. Thus you have "Americanist" or "Latin Americanist" or "Early Americanist", "Mayanist". (Compare this with "Arabist", "Hebraist" and "Orientalist" above.) This is usually clear enough... though sometimes the "ist" form is already used in other competing ways. "Islamicist" won't work...so you need something like "Islamic scholar" (though even that might

Answer 2

Being an Egyptologist is a subcategory from being a historian, archaeologist and anthropologist. An Egyptologists are professionals contained in the field of Egypt as a Hittitologists is of the Hittites and so on. i ought to visit many colleges or look at their courses in the experience that they tournament your needs as a student in contact in making this your career. you'll surely finally end up a researcher who receives substances to operate to the wealth of expertise or a Professor coaching both Egyptian heritage or archeology. that is extremely hard to recieve substances for the form of work multiple human beings make certain to educate rather. Professors can make extremely a good residing so it truly works properly in case you want coaching your expertise to varsity factor students.

Answer 3

If for America you mean U.S.A, I'm sorry but I doubt that somebody could find much of interest there.
If for America you mean the rest of the American countries, or the continent in itself, of course, I have never been there must be a really beautiful place with lots of history and culture, pyramids and civilations as old as the egyptian one.

To change the picture, edit your profile, and in pictures select the option you want. If you chose Avatar, you can select the apareance of the picture, change clothes, accessories...

Answer 4

Wouldn't that be an anthropologist? Who focuses mostly on America? Dunno.

As for the picture, click on your name that's by your blank picture, then you can change to an avatar or use one from your Yahoo 360 page. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

to do it, go to "Home"

then click on your picture, which is currently a smile. its on the left hand side of the screen and it should have your name next to it.

then click "change my info"

u can prolly get it from there


i dunno, maybe cuz america is to young.

Answer 6

There are Americanists. I am one. Honest.