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Introduction to Geography, 8/e
Arthur Getis, San Diego State University
Judith Getis
Jerome D. Fellmann, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Cultural Geography

Web Links


Language

Ethnologue
(http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ )

A near-complete review of the world's languages; it lists 6703 of them.
The University of California - Davis
(http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/terralin/ )

Department of Native American Studies hosts Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity
Foreign Language Resources
(http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/HumanResources.html )

Origins of Canada's Geographical Names
(http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca./english/schoolnet/origin.html )

Language Links
(http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html)

The Dictionary of American Regional Link
(http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html)

Ethnicity

Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
(http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/minority.html )

Minority Studies Page, with links to general resource sites and ethnic-specific home pages.
Kansas State's National Association for Ethnic Studies
(http://www.ksu.edu/ameth/naes/ethnic.htm )

provides linked references to other university ethnic studies programs and to a number of ethnic websites and other ethnic-related resources.
The U.S. Census Bureau
(http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html )

Minority Links for Media
About. COM's Cultures page
(http://www.about.com/culture )

WWW Virtual Library's Indigenous Studies
(http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html )

WomenWatch
(http://www.un.org/womenwatch )

Gateway to UN information and data on women worldwide
Unifem
(http://www.undp.org/unifem/ )

The home page of the United Nations Development Fund for Women
Popular Culture

Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center
(http://www.popcultures.com/ )

A collection of annotated links to popular culture and cultural studies.
Religion

WWW Virtual Library's Facets of Religion
(http://www.bcca.org/~cvoogt/Religion/)

The "Religion" page of Academic Info
(http://www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html)

another useful and extensive guide
Religion/Spirituality
(http://about.com/religion)