What constitutes a field of scholarship? Is it sufficient that different scholars share a common concern for a single phenomenon, regardless of their disciplinary or methodological differences? Should they share common research methods or theories? Should they engage a shared body of literature? What about intellectual lineage or conventions of style, form, or audience? Is a scholarly field the sum-total of research on a given topic, or can it be understood to be something larger than the sum of its scholarly papers?

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什么构成了奖学金领域？不同的学者对单一现象有共同的关注，而不管他们的学科或方法论差异如何，这就足够了吗？他们应该分享共同的研究方法或理论吗？他们是否应该参与共享的文学作品？知识血统或风格、形式或受众的惯例呢？学术领域是特定主题研究的总和，还是可以理解为大于其学术论文的总和？