Pathfinder to Resources – What is Culture?

Web sites:

For dictionary definitions of Culture:

• Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com

Select dictionary on Reference drop down menu

• Google http://www.google.com

Put in search term and when results come up- on blue shaded bar at top of the results page- hit the word definition as shown below:

Results 1 - 10 of about 406,000,000 for culture [definition]. (0.12 seconds)

Defining what culture means:

• Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook

http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/culture/

This workbook, designed to enable new Peace Corps volunteers to work well and respectfully in other cultures, can also be used in classrooms or by individuals who wish to confront their cultural assumptions.

• Humanities-Interactive: Culture

http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html

Provides an essay about understanding culture

Ø Select the Exhibit Collection Understanding Other People’s Cultures

Ø Click the link at the top titled in blue: Read the Understanding of Other People’s Cultures Essay

Understanding individual countries cultures

• Cultural Profiles Project http://www.cp-pc.ca/
  Intended as a guide to aid in cultural awareness of new immigrants to Canada, this is a resource for learning about the "life and customs" of countries worldwide. Provides information on work, food, holidays, family life, spirituality, communication, education, sports and recreation, landscape and climate, history, health care, and the arts and literature of dozens of countries. From Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).
• Library of Congress-Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Links to selected internet resources about countries from around the world

Databases: from our library home page http://uhs.ucfsd.org/library/UHSlibraryindex.php

Defining what culture means:

• ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

try the search term culture

remember when you view the article- click on the left side bar expand all to see all the other pages in the article

• WORLD BOOK

log-in: ucfsd password: mushroom

try the search term culture

Understanding individual countries cultures

• ABC-CLIO - WORLD GEOGRAPHY-

Describes aspects of individual countries’ cultures (i.e. arts, food holidays)

user name and password are both uhsindians

Ø select a country profile from the drop down menu at the top

Ø then go to the tab- culture

BOOKS:

Don’t forget to look at all the books on the cart too…

Contemporary Youth Culture- R 305.23509 CON

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture- R 910 GRE