As of the year 2000 the Collection of Ethnography on the Web contains 78 selected cultures from around the world, including information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Topics range from family relationships to religious practices to ideas about gender.
It is therefore not only valuable to the social sciences, but also to medicine, law, humanities, ethnic minority studies, religious studies, and other disciplines. It focuses on pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups.