Documentation   Keywords  Publications  Related Studies

Title:
World Ethnographic Atlas, 1967-1971

Subject Categories:
Reference sources - Reference and instructional resources

Depositor(s):
Goody, J., University of Cambridge. Department of Social Anthropology

Principal Investigator(s):
Goody, J., University of Cambridge. Department of Social Anthropology

Abstract:
To provide a register of information on 863 cultures or cultural types.
Main Topics:
Variables
Regional identification, estimated relative dependence on each of 5 major types of subsistence economy, prevailing mode of obtaining a wife, prevailing form of domestic or familial organisation, profile of marital residence, community organisation (the prevalence of local endogamy, agamy and exogamy), kinship groupings, type and intensity of agriculture, settlement patterns, mean size of local communities, jurisdictional hierarchy, highgods, types of games, post-partum sex taboos, male genital mutilations, segregation of adolescent boys, type of animal husbandry, types of technological or economic activity (e.g. weaving, pottery, boat building), linguistic affiliation, class stratification, caste stratification, slavery, succession to the office of local headman, inheritance of property, norms of premarital sex behaviour, ground plan of dwellings, floor level, wall material, shape of roof, roofing material, secondary and alternative house type.
Three variables have been added from other sources: political integration and political succession (Murdoch's World Ethnographic Sample, 1957) and environment (rated by Frank Moore, 1963 from Phillips Comparative World Atlases).
Information contained in the April 1967 issue of Ethnology was originally put into machine-readable form by the Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. (See codebook for more detailed information). Corrections and additions appearing in subsequent editions of Ethnology (up to January 1971) were made to the original version in August 1974 by Professor J.R. Goody, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Coverage:
Dates of Fieldwork: April 1967-January 1971
Country: Multi-nation
Spatial Units: No information recorded
Observation Units: Administrative units (geographical/political); Cultures
Kind of Data: Numeric data

Universe Sampled:
Location of Units of Observation:Cross-national
Population:863 cultures or cultural types

Methodology:
Time Dimensions: No information recorded
Sampling Procedures: No information recorded
Number of Units: 863 (obtained)
Method of Data Collection: Coded textual data
Data Sources: Published source material; Murdoch, G.P., `World Ethnographic Atlas', in Ethnology, April 1967, Vol. VI, No.2, pp.154-169
Ethnology, October 1967, Vol. VI, No.4, pp. 481-484
Ethnology, April 1968, Vol. VII, No.2, pp.218-221, 327-328
Ethnology, January 1971, Vol. X, No.1, pp.122-124
Murdoch, G.P., World Ethnographic Sample (1957)
Phillips Comparative World Atlases

Language(s) of Written Materials:
Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

Access:
Access Conditions: The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See terms and conditions for further information.
Availability: ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
Contact: Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk

Date of Release:
First Edition: 1 January 1974

Download Acrobat PDF Reader