D-PLACE
Also known as Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment
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).
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About this database
| Website | https://d-place.org |
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| Subjects | Humanities and Social Sciences · Natural Sciences · Humanities · Social and Behavioural Sciences · Geosciences (including Geography) · Ancient Cultures · Linguistics · Non-European Languages and Cultures, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies · Geography |
| Last updated | 2026-09-11 |