D-PLACE: Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment

From the foods we eat, to who we can marry, to the types of games we teach our children, the diversity of cultural practices in the world is astounding. Yet, our ability to visualize and understand this diversity is often limited by the ways it traditionally has been documented and shared: on a culture-by-culture basis, in locally-told stories or difficult-to-access books and articles. D-PLACE represents an attempt to bring together this dispersed corpus of information.

Project team: Kathryn R. Kirby, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Stef Gomes-Ng, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Damián E. Blasi, Carlos A. Botero, Claire Bowern, Carol R. Ember, Dan Leehr, Bobbi S. Low, Joe McCarter, William Divale, Michael C. Gavin

Publications from this project

Pathways to social inequality.

Haynie H, Kavanagh PH, Jordan FM, Ember CR, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Kirby KR, Kushnick G, Low BS, Tuff T, Vilela B, Botero C, & Gavin MC. 2021. Pathways to social inequality. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E35.

Abstract DOI PDF

@article{Haynie2021,
  title = {Pathways to social inequality.},
  author = {Haynie, Hannah J. and Kavanagh, Patrick H. and Jordan, Fiona M. and Ember, Carol R. and Gray, Russell D. and Greenhill, Simon J. and Kirby, Kathryn R. and Kushnick, Geoff and Low, Bobbi S. and Tuff, Ty and Vilela, Bruno and Botero, Carlos A. and Gavin, Michael C.},
  journal = {Evolutionary Human Sciences},
  volume = {3},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1017/ehs.2021.32},
  url = {https://simon.net.nz/articles/pathways-to-social-inequality/},
}

D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity

Kirby KR, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Gomes-Ng S, Bibiko H-J, Blasi D, Botero CA, Bowern C, Ember CR, Leehr D, Low BS, McCarter J, Divale W, Gavin MC. 2016. D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158391.

Abstract DOI PDF

@article{Kirby2016,
  title = {D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity},
  author = {Kirby, Kathryn R. and Gray, Russell D. and Greenhill, Simon J. and Jordan, Fiona M. and Gomes-Ng, Stef and Bibiko, Hans-Jörg and Blasi, Damián E. and Botero, Carlos A. and Bowern, Claire and Ember, Carol R. and Leehr, Dan and Low, Bobbi S. and McCarter, Joe and Divale, William and Gavin, Michael C.},
  journal = {PLOS ONE},
  volume = {11},
  number = {7},
  pages = {e0158391},
  publisher = {Public Library of Science (PLoS)},
  year = {2016},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0158391},
  url = {https://simon.net.nz/articles/d-place-a-global-database-of-cultural-linguistic-and-environmental-diversity/},
}