Database of places, language, culture and environment: D-PLACE

D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE represents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which...

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Corporate Author: Data and Service Center for the Humanities (Issuing body)
Format: Electronic | Database Research Data
Language:English
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Published: Munich Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History [2016?]-
In:Year: 2016
Further subjects:B Research data
B Database
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Summary:D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE represents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950)
Item Description:Gesehen am 15.01.2018