- World cultures
World Cultures is an electronic and paper journal of
cross-cultural studies . It was founded in 1985 byDouglas R. White as editor until 1990, when Greg Truex became editor, followed byJ. Patrick Gray and Peter Peregrine (1991-1995). Pat Gray remains the current editor. The current publisher isWilliam Divale . The journal publishes cross-cultural research articles and has published computerized codebooks and datasets on theStandard Cross-Cultural Sample , Western North American Indians, an Atlas of Archaeology, and numerous other topics. Numerous software programs for cross-cultural analysis have also been published.Part of the purpose of the journal is to provide codebooks and data that are in the public domain for scientific use, at minimal cost of distribution, both to support scientific work and instructional use. To this end, the CD containing all past issues, datasets and software is available from publisher William Divale at minimal cost ($10), and new as well as legacy issues of the journal are appearing at the free on-line site at the
California Digital Library . The largest of the databases supported by the journal to date are the contributed multiauthored coded data for theStandard Cross-Cultural Sample , now numbering 2,002 coded variables on 186 societies by over 90 different contributing authors.External links
* [http://www.worldcultures.org World Cultures]
* [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/worldcul/world.htm World Cultures Alternate site]
* [http://eclectic.anthrosciences.org/~drwhite/worldcul/world.htm British Mirror site for World Cultures]
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