Defining Culture
Associated Organisations
Australian Capital Territory
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
The CCR, The Australian National University,Canberra ACT is dedicated to the enrichment of scholarly and public understandings of cross-cultural relations and histories.
New South Wales
Centre for Cultural Research
The CCR is a University of Western Sydney (UWS) supported Research Centre focusing on the analysis and interpretation of 'culture' in an increasingly globalised, postmodern, heterogeneous and technologically-mediated world.
Directories and Background Materials
Africa Web Links: An Annotated Resource List
A full and generously annotated catalog from the University of Pennsylvania Africa Studies department.
Australian Community Information Summaries
DIMIA statistics/information describing overseas-born communities and their descendants who are living in Australia .
Centre for Ulster Migrations, Cultures and Societies
Links to organizations and information on Irish genealogy and Irish history, with particular reference to the province of Ulster .
Culture Definitions
Brief definitions of culture posted by The National Association of School Psychologists, Bethesda US (PDF).
Defining Culture
Brief description of the definition of culture and related terms according to different disciplines, posted by Michael Nanna, Arizona State University .
Definitions of culture on the Web
Google collation of definitions of culture with their corresponding web addresses.
Ethnographic Atlas
The Ethnographic Atlas is a database on 1167 societies coded by George P. Murdock and published in 29 successive installments in the journal ETHNOLOGY, 1962-1980.
FECCA Cultural Dictionary
Information on topics such as the language, religion, history, general attitudes, personal appearance, greetings, gestures, visiting habits, eating, lifestyle, family and marriage practices of the homelands of many of the people who make up the Australian community.
The World Factbook 2003
Online version providing a "snapshot" of the world. Information on the History, people, government etc categorised by country.
Turkish Odyssey
Comprehensive web site about Turkish History and culture.
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
Available in a number of languages.
What is culture?
Resources outlining some of the broad-ranging debates which have gone on about the concept of culture during the past century.
Yahoo's Index of Culture Links
Links to sites on 176 different cultures.