When Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation") first began to take its current usage by Europeans in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century (having had earlier antecedents elsewhere), it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the nineteenth century, it came to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the fulfillment of national aspirati...
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Organizations in this sector:
- Institut Néerlandais ,
- Ismar Elbogen Network for Jewish Cultural History e.V. ,
- manche(r)art ,
- Farafina Trust
Journals in this discipline:
- Journal of Popular Culture ,
- African Languages and Cultures. Supplement ,
- African Languages and Cultures
