George Murdock
American anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Peter Murdock , also known as G. P. Murdock, was an American anthropologist who was professor at Yale University and University of Pittsburgh. He is remembered for his empirical approach to ethnological studies and his study of family and kinship structures across differing cultures. His 1967 Ethnographic Atlas dataset on more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies is influential and frequently used in social science research.
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Published Papers
- Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (1969) (1014)
- Africa: Its Peoples and Their Culture History (1960) (893)
- Ethnographic Atlas: A Summary (1967) (786)
- Factors in the division of labor by sex: a cross-cultural analysis (1973) (439)
- World Ethnographic Sample (1957) (400)
- Measurement of cultural complexity (1973) (282)
- Outline of Cultural Materials (1983) (196)
- Settlement patterns and community organization: cross-cultural codes 3 (1972) (179)
- The common denominator of cultures (1968) (177)
- Atlas of World Cultures (1981) (168)
- Anthropology's Mythology (1971) (142)
- Theories of Illness: A World Survey (1980) (127)
- Our Primitive Contemporaries (1934) (124)
- Outline of world cultures (1954) (118)
- Subsistence Economy and Supportive Practices: Cross-Cultural Codes 1 (1970) (112)
- Comparative Data on the Division of Labor By Sex (1937) (103)
- On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply] (1964) (88)
- World Distribution of Theories of Illness (1978) (84)
- Kin Term Patterns and Their Distribution (1970) (76)
- The Cross-Cultural Survey (1940) (68)
- Cross-language parallels in parental kin terms (1959) (56)
- Patterns of Sibling Terminology (1968) (52)
- Organization of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Production among Non-Industrial Peoples. (1959) (51)
- World Sampling Provinces (1968) (47)
- Culture and Society. (1967) (44)
- Cross-Cultural Sampling (1966) (38)
- Staple Subsistence Crops of Africa (1960) (37)
- Genetic Classification of the Austronesian Languages: A Key to Oceanic Culture History (1964) (34)
- Ethnographic bibliography of North America (1961) (34)
- Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior (1964) (30)
- Culture and Behavior: Collected Essays of Clyde Kluckhohn. (1962) (26)
- KINSHIP AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AMONG THE HAIDA (1934) (25)
- THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE (1932) (22)
- Sociology and Anthropology. (1954) (21)
- South American Culture Areas (1951) (21)
- Bifurcate merging, a test of five theories. (1947) (19)
- Family Stability in Non-European Cultures (1950) (19)
- Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered (1971) (19)
- Studies in the Science of Society. (1937) (18)
- Changing Emphases in Social Structure (1955) (17)
- Major Emphases in My Comparative Research (1977) (16)
- Bbitish Social Anthropology (1951) (15)
- Cross-sex patterns of kin behavior (1971) (15)
- Correlations of exploitative and settlement patterns (1969) (14)
- Aftermath: a Supplement to The Golden Bough.@@@The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion. (1937) (14)
- Feasibility and Implementation of Comparative Community Research: With Special Reference to the Human Relations Area Files (1950) (13)
- Culture and Society Twenty-Four Essays (1965) (11)
- MURNGIN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION (1949) (11)
- Anthropology and Human Relations (1941) (10)
- Social Organization of Truk (1947) (10)
- The tenino indians (1980) (9)
- Profane literature of Buin, Solomon Islands . An outline of Seneca ceremonies at Coldspring longhouse . The Shawnee female deity . Human-wolves among the Navaho . Musical areas in aboriginal North America . Rank and potlatch among the Haida (1936) (9)
- GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Cultural Anthropology: An Abridged Revision of Man and His Works. Melville J. Herskovits (1955) (8)
- Post-partum sex taboos (1967) (7)
- Section of Anthropology*: ANTHROPOLOGY IN MICRONESIA (1948) (6)
- The science of human learning, society, culture, and personality. (1949) (6)
- British Social Anthropology (1952) (5)
- Outline of South American cultures (1951) (5)
- New Light on the Peoples of Micronesia. (1948) (5)
- GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Karl A. Wittfogel (1957) (4)
- Anthropology and its contribution to public health. (1952) (3)
- In Search of Health: Essays in Medical Anthropology (1982) (3)
- LATIN AMERICA: The Folk Culture of Yucatan. Robert Redfield (1943) (3)
- STDS03.COD: Settlement Patterns and Community Organization (1986) (3)
- CLARK WISSLER, 1870–1947 (1948) (3)
- Typology in the Area of Social Organization (1960) (3)
- Sociology and Ethnology (1933) (2)
- : Camp, Clan, and Kin among the Cow Creek Seminole of Florida . Alexander Spoehr. ; Kinship System of the Seminole . Alexander Spoehr. ; The Florida Seminole Camp . Alexander Spoehr. ; Changing Kinship Systems . Alexander Spoehr. (1947) (2)
- Studies in the science of society : presented to Albert Galloway Keller in celebration of his completion of thirty years as professor of the science of society in Yale University (1969) (2)
- Ethnographic bibliography of North America, 4th edition, Supplement 1973-1987 (1990) (2)
- The Conceptual Basis of Area Research (1950) (1)
- Confusion in African Linguistic Classification (1964) (1)
- STDS01.COD: Subsistence Economy and Supportive Practices (1986) (1)
- GENERAL. AND THEORETICAL: Social Organization. Robert H. Lowie (1949) (1)
- THE WITOTO KINSHIP SYSTEM (1936) (1)
- ETHNOLOGY: The Contribution of A. L. Kroeber to Culture Area Theory and Practice. HAROLD E. DRIVER (1965) (1)
- An Atlas of African History. J. D. Fage. (1959) (1)
- GENERAL: Verhandlungen des XXIV. Internationalen Amerikanisten-Kongresses, 1930. R. Grossman and G. Antze, eds (1935) (1)
- Social Organization of the Western Pueblos. Fred Eggan (1951) (1)
- The Ways of Men: An Introduction lo Anthropology. John Gillin (1949) (0)
- Index to Volume II (1950) (0)
- BARBEAU, MARIUS. Alaska Beckons. Pp. 343. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1947. $4.50 (1948) (0)
- Ethnographic Atlas@@@Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1967@@@Carribbeana, 1900-1965, a Topical Bibliography (1971) (0)
- WILLARD Z. PARK 1906–1965 (1966) (0)
- Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology . Melville J. Herskovits. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Pp. xviii + 678 + xxxvii. (Illustrated.) $6.75. (1948) (0)
- A bibliography of the Indians of northwestern California (1962) (0)
- OCEANIA: Primitive Polynesian Economy. Raymond Firth (1940) (0)
- STDS05.COD: Division of Labor (1986) (0)
- Mbunda Craftsmen of Zambia (1968) (0)
- Rejoinder to Goody (1967) (0)
- SOCIAL CLASSES AND THE STATE: AN ESSAY IN CORRELATION (1978) (0)
- ARENSBERG, CONRAD M., and SOLON T. KIMBALL. Family and Community in Ireland. Pp. xxx, 322. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1940. $3.50 (1941) (0)
- The Ashanti . A proud people. Robert A. Lystad. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1958. vii + 212 pp. Illus. $5. (1958) (0)
- Recent developments in evolutionary theory — especially by biologist (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Marriage in Tribal Societies. Meyer Fortes (1962) (0)
- Rejoinder to Fortes (1961) (0)
- STDS06.COD: Cultural Complexity (1986) (0)
- : St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish . Horace Miner. (1940) (0)
- School Tackles Discipline Problems with a Smile (1973) (0)
- Back Matter (1954) (0)
- Murdock's Reply to Needham (1963) (0)
- Tribesmen. Marshall D. Sahlins (1968) (0)
- METHODS AND PRINCIPLES: Systematic Sociology. Leopold von Wiese. Adapted and amplified by Howard Becker (1932) (0)
- Native Peoples of South America@@@Africa: Its Peoples and Their Culture History@@@Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1959@@@Beyond the Mountains of the Moon: The Lives of Four Africans (1960) (0)
- MEAD, MARGARET (Ed.). Coöperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples. Pp. xii, 531. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1937. $4.00 (1938) (0)
- The public sphere and social struggle. (1985) (0)
- Sexual behavior; how shall we define and motivate what is acceptable? (Proceedings of a panel discussion held at the 37th annual meeting and social hygiene day regional conference of the American Social Hygiene Association New York, N.Y., February 1, 1950). (1950) (0)
- GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Method in Social Anthropology: Selected Essays by A. R. Radcliffe‐Brown. M. N. Srinivas (1960) (0)
- Anthropology and Public Health: Rejoinder (1952) (0)
- A Firsthand Look at Learning (1980) (0)
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