Culture and Ethno-cultural Diversity
Beliefs and Attitudes – Ethnicity – Identities – Indigenous Peoples – Language – Migration and Diasporas – Minorities – Multiculturalism – Museums and Cultural Heritage – National Symbols – Racism – Religion
This page provides a set of links on Culture and Ethno-cultural Diversity, with brief comments on each link. The main criterion for deciding on whether a web site is included was its usefulness to researchers, students and journalists. For their inclusion, of greater importance than the organisations responsible for them was the existence of free access databases, scientific articles, bibliographies, statistics, reports, resource lists and meta links on the respective topic. Inclusion of these web sites does not imply endorsement of the viewpoints expressed therein, or the proposed typologies or classifications. The quality is heterogeneous, ranging from medium to excellent. For any comments or suggestions for additions, please contact the editor.
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Author: CARLOS MAURÍCIO
Last Updated: December 2005
ADHERENTS.COM: World Religion Statistics / Membership statistics by country, region and name.
AFROBAROMETER: Department of Political Science / Michigan State University / Reports on surveys carried in 15 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa / Interesting topics: Attitudes toward democracy; Social Capital; National Identity.
L'AMENAGEMENT LINGUISTIQUE DANS LE MONDE: Trésor de la langue française au Québec / Université Laval / Reference web site on the world's linguistic arrangement / Search by country (192), by people, by language, by language policies, and by national linguistic laws / French / Editor: Jacques Leclerc.
A CONFLICT RESOLUTION PAGE: Bibliographies on conflict resolution / Links to conflict resolution and ethnicity issues / Editor: Dimo Yagcioglu.
CULTURAL SURVIVAL: Promoting the rights, voices and visions of Indigenous Peoples / International law / Database of indigenous organizations from around the world / E-Journal: Cultural Survival Quarterly (since 1981) / Search by themes.
eLandnet: Electronic gateway to ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and stateless nations (near 3,000 links) / Editor: Paul Van Cappellen.
ETHNOLOGUE: SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics) / Reference web site on the world's near 7,000 living languages / Statistics by country, and by language (See: Country Index and Language Family Index) / Bibliographies by country, and by theme.
THE EUROBAROMETER SURVEY SERIES: Standard Eurobarometer / European Commission / Monitoring of social and political attitudes in the European publics / Reports, questionnaires, and codebooks / European Union (since 1973); Central and Eastern Europe (since 1990).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION AGAINST RACISM AND INTOLERANCE: Council of Europe / Country Reports (40 countries) / Annual Reports (since 1997).
EUROPEAN ROMA RIGHTS CENTRE: Reports / Legal database from the European Court of Human Rights dealing with Roma issues / Links / E-Journal: Roma Rights Quarterly (since 1996).
FEDERAL RESEARCH DIVISION: COUNTRY STUDIES: Federal Research Division / The Library of Congress ( USA ) / Country Studies (101 units) / Country Profiles / Search by countries, and by topics.
FLAGS OF THE WORLD: Reference Internet's site devoted to the study of flags / More than 53,000 images of flags / Editor: Rob Raeside.
GLOBAL DIASPORAS: Bibliographies / Links / Editor: T. L. S. Bhaskar.
HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: International or Regional Instruments (full text or excerpts) / Case Law / Reports / Links / Papers / Interesting issues: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion; Right of peoples to self-determination; Rights of indigenous peoples; Rights of migrants / English – French / Editor: Ludovic Hennebel.
INTERNATIONAL CLEARING HOUSE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: Department of Dynamic Linguistics / University of Tokyo / Bibliography on Language Endangerment / UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages / English – Japanese.
INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESEARCH: INCORE / University of Ulster / Guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity. Search by country, topic, or peace agreement / On-line Book reviews / Bibliographies.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MIGRATION DATABASE: Labour Migration Statistics / Search by country, topic or year (since 1986).
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT / U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor / U.S. Department of State / Annual country reports, covering 195 units, since 1999.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SURVEY PROGRAMME: Programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering important issues for social science research (39 countries) / Interesting topics: social values, religion, national identity, citizenship / Data-sets, codebooks, and questionnaires can be ordered from the ISSP Archive in the Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne .
ISLAMOPHOBIA WATCH: Seated in London , this Project aims to document material in public domain which advocates a fear and hatred of the Muslim peoples of the world and Islam as a religion.
JOSHUA PROJECT: Seated in Colorado Springs , this Project is engaged in missionary work around the world / Listing of all people groups by country, classified according to ethnic, religious, linguistic or national ties / Search by country, by people, by people-in-country, by primary religion, and by primary language.
LATINOBARÓMETRO: Corporación Latinobarómetro (Santiago del Chile) / Reports on surveys carried since 1995 in 18 countries from Latin America / Interesting topics: Democracy and Public Policies; Economy and its Expectations; Social Values / English – Spanish / Executive Director: Marta Lagos.
MINELRES: MINORITY ELECTRONIC RESEARCH: Electronic resources on minority human rights in Eastern and Central Europe / Selected bibliographies / Minority related national legislation / Country reports / Links.
MINORITIES AT RISK: Center for International Development and Conflict Management / University of Maryland / This reference web site monitors the persecution and mobilization of 284 politically active ethnic groups worldwide / Minority group assessments and chronologies / Search by country.
MUSEUMLAND – The World Wide Portal to Museums and Cultural Heritage: Accessible by country or by category / Topics related with national memory or identity: archaeology, ethnology, folklore, war, religion, theatre.
THE PEW GLOBAL ATTITUDES PROJECT: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press / The Project is a series of public opinion surveys conducted in 50 countries worldwide / It aims to measure changes in attitudes toward democracy, globalization, the place of religion in social life, and the role of women in societies
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM HOMEPAGE: University of Virginia / Religious communities, religious freedom reports, and bibliographies by country / Editor: Jeffrey K. Hadden (until 2003).
THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS HOMEPAGE PROJECT: University of Virginia / Group profiles by alphabetic list or by faith tradition / Links to web resources and bibliographies on each group / Editor-in-chief: Douglas E. Cowan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE SITES: Meta Links on ethnicity and diasporas issues / Research Centres / Editor: Frederick W. Riggs.
TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology / University of Oxford / Diasporas and Migrations / Bibliographical and Study Guide edited by Robin Cohen / Reports / Meta Links.
UNESCO. WORLD HERITAGE: World cultural and natural heritage by country / See: The List of the 812 official sites (with description and justification).
UNREPRESENTED NATIONS AND PEOPLES ORGANISATION: International organization of indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent territories aiming to protect their human and cultural rights, preserve their environments, and find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them / Mission reports / Links to NGOs and movements.
VIRTUAL LIBRARY MUSEUMS PAGES: Directory of on-line museums / Accessible by country, region or through the search engine / Topics related with national memory and identity: national, military and ethnographic museums / Editor: Jonathan Bowen.
THE WORLD FACTBOOK: Central Intelligence Agency / US Government / See: “Notes and Definitions”.
WORLD VALUES SURVEY: Association, based in Stockholm, aiming to help social scientists and policy makers better understand worldviews and changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world / Data from 1981, 1990, 1995 and 1999 waves are available from the ICPSR survey data archive / A combined dataset containing the first three waves can be analyzed at the following website:
http://nds.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/s/sda/hsda?harcWEVS+wevs
WORLDSTATESMEN: Encyclopedia of the leaders of nations and dependencies / Chronologies / National flags / National anthems: lyrics in national language(s) with an English translation / Meta Links / Editor: Benjamin Cahoon.
WWW.NATIONAL-ANTHEMS.NET: Lyrics and Audio files in mp3 format / National passports.
THE WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY: INDIGENOUS STUDIES: Center for World Indigenous Studies / Links to indigenous resources by region / Research Centres.
THE WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY ON MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations / Utrecht University / Meta links / Research Centres.
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