Ward H Goodenough

Biographic Data

ID75065
NAMEWard H Goodenough
GIVEN NAMESWard H
FAMILY NAMEGoodenough
SIGNATUREGOODENOUGH W H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS80
TOTAL CITATIONS555
AUTHOR COUNT80
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1947
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX9

  • Rethinking ‘Status' and ‘Role' Toward a General Model of the Cultural Organization of Social Relationships

    Ward H GoodenoughCHAPTERRelevance of Models for Social…2013

    This examination of the concepts ‘status’ and ‘role’ arises from my concern with a problem in ethnographic description. 1 It is the problem of developing methods for processing the data of field observation and informant interview so as to enhance the rigor with which we arrive at statements of a society’s culture or system of norms such that they make social events within that society intelligible in the way that they are intelligible to its mem…

  • Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: 2

    Byron W Bender, Ward H Goodenough et al.ARTICLEOceanic Linguistics2003

    Byron W. Bender, Ward H. Goodenough, Frederick H. Jackson, Jeffrey C. Marck, Kenneth L. Rehg, Ho-min Sohn, Stephen Trussel, Judith W. Wang, Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: 2, Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 271-358

  • Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: I

    Byron W Bender, Ward H Goodenough et al.ARTICLEOceanic Linguistics2003

  • In Pursuit of Culture

    Ward H GoodenoughARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2003Cited by: 5References: 30

    In this brief, autobiographical account, I trace the development of my intellectual and theoretical interests, especially as they relate to culture. How can we account for culture's being learned by individuals and yet apparently shared by members of a community? How do cultures as shared within communities change and evolve? How does what we know about languages, themselves a kind of cultural tradition, contribute to understanding culture and cu…

  • Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughBOOKUnder Heaven's Brow2002

  • Anthropology in the 20th Century and Beyond

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2002Cited by: 6References: 131

    This article reviews the growth of knowledge in the four fields of anthropology. It is not an intellectual history but, rather, focuses on what I consider to have been the important developments in substantive knowledge. [Keywords: U.S. anthropology, four fields, 20th century, substantive knowledge

  • Escort into Night/The Peace that Passes Understanding

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2000

    Stone-blossom is the gift of carvers Of everyschool.There! the tendril's curl, Sheen of snakeskin, teeming ant-hills.Back in Loei, conversely, By a reciprocal mutation The stubborn two-year stance Of that rooted contemplative Clad in tinctures of the earth Breathes permanence, or the illusion Of permanence, into the living

  • Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEJournal of Linguistic Anthropology2000Cited by: 1

    Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases. James R. Burford. Michael Studdert-Kennedy. and Chris Knight. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 442 pp

  • Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2000

    Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. Marvin Harris. Walnut Creek. CA. London, and New Delhi: Altamira Press. 1999.224 pp

  • Malinowski Award Lecture: Communicating 10,000 Years Into the Future

    Ward H Goodenough, Ward GoodenoughARTICLEHuman Organization1999

    Ward H. Goodenough is professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as president of the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1963 and editor of the American Anthropologist from 1966-1970. Dr. Goodenough is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of the American Anthropological Association's Distinguished Service Award

  • Outline of a Framework for a Theory of Cultural Evolution

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLECross-Cultural Research1999Cited by: 9References: 21

    Cultural traditions (including languages) are transmitted across generations through learning by individuals in interaction with other members of the social groups to which they belong. Such groups are analogous to biological demes whose genetic heritage is transmitted across generations by the procreative interactions of their members. Cultural traditions and human biological demes coevolve like symbionts in mutual interdependency. There are man…

  • Category

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEJournal of Linguistic Anthropology1999Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Two Sonnets

    Open AccessWard H Goodenough, Ward GoodenoughARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism1999

  • Phylogenetically Related Cultural Traditions

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLECross-Cultural Research1997Cited by: 2References: 5

    Anthropologists have long recognized that cultural traditions in different societies can be related phylogenetically in that they derive historically from a common ancestral tradition in the same way that languages can be related phylogenetically. Problems of method for convincingly establishing such relations for cultural traditions have remained unresolved. Remote Oceania, where we have reason to assume that nearly all existing cultural traditi…

  • Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis

    Ward H GoodenoughBOOKOceanic Linguistics1997Cited by: 1

    Ward H. Goodenough revisits his earlier work on the Kimbe language of Papua New Guinea, presenting a revised analysis of its phonology and morphology. He argues that certain features previously attributed to borrowing from other languages are actually reflections of an earlier stage of Kimbe, which he terms "Proto-Kimbe." This new analysis has implications for understanding the historical development of Kimbe and its relationship to neighboring l…

  • Archaeology of Southeastern Coastal China and Its Bearing on the Austronesian Homeland

    Kwang‐chih Chang, Kwang-Chih Chang et al.ARTICLETransactions of the American…1996Cited by: 5

    Kwang-Chih Chang, Ward H. Goodenough, Archaeology of Southeastern Coastal China and Its Bearing on the Austronesian Homeland, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 86, No. 5, Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific (1996), pp. 36-56

  • Murdock as Bridge: From Sumner to HRAF to SCCR

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLECross-Cultural Research1996References: 11

    George Peter Murdock began his anthropological career when the concerns of the cultural evolutionary and cultural historical schools both required the creation of large ethnographic databases and systematic comparative or cross-cultural research. Other kinds of newly emerging questions in behavioral, social, and cultural theory also required such research. Murdock led the way in undertaking the creation of the badly needed databases with the crea…

  • Voyage of Discovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia . Ben Finney

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1996

  • Proto-Micronesian Palatals *Land *N

    Ward H GoodenoughARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1995

    Les phonemes consonantiques reconstruits par Jackson (1983, 1986) pour le proto-micronesien comprennent une palatale * N(n). l'A. apporte une nouvelle contribution a ce protophoneme et presente des arguments en faveur d'une palatale * L

  • Froelich Gladstone Rainey, 1907-1992

    Ward H GoodenoughARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1993

  • Gradual and Quantum Changes in the History of Chuukese (Trukese) Phonology

    Ward H GoodenoughARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1992

    Processes by which the five vowel phonemes of Proto-Oceanic and Proto-Micronesian were transformed into nine vowel phonemes in modern Chuukese are revealed by comparing Chuukese with Woleaian and Kiribati (Gilbertese). Examination of these vowel changes, in many ways similar to those that occurred in the history of the Germanic languages, reveals a striking parallel between the phenomenology of change in languages and that of change in biological…

  • Comment on the Four Fields

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAnthropology News1992

  • Archeology: Recent Advances in Micronesian Archaeology: Selected Papers from the Micronesian Archaeology Conference, September 9–12, 1987 . Rosalind L. Hunter‐Anderson , ed

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1992

  • Reply to James Donovan

    Open AccessWard H GoodenoughARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1991References: 2

  • Tungaru Traditions: Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands

    Ward H Goodenough, Arthur Francis Grimble et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1991