George Peter Murdock
Biographic Data
| ID | 75424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Peter Murdock |
| GIVEN NAMES | George Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Murdock |
| SIGNATURE | MURDOCK G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1822 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 97 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Sociology and Anthropology.
In Search of Health: Essays in Medical Anthropology
Atlas of World Cultures
Atlas of world cultures
Theories of Illness: A World Survey
The Tenino Indians
The Terlino, also called the Warm Springs Sahaptin, at their first contact with Europeans occupied a portion of the south bank of the Columbia River in north central Oregon and the lower watershed of its southern affluents. Their immediate neighbors, readirlg clockwise, were the following tribes: the Sahaptin-speaking Umatilla to the east beyond cv. I20°5t W; the Shoshonean-speaking Northern Paiute to the south beyond a. 44°55' N; the Waiilatpuan…
World Distribution of Theories of Illness
Anthropological attention was first drawn to the significance of theories of illness in I932 by Forrest E. Clements in a pioneer paper on Concepts of Disease (University of Californiv Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 32: I85-252). This clearly demonstrated that the explanations of illness current among most of the peoples of the world have little in common with those recognized by modern medical science and relate much more clos…
Major Emphases in My Comparative Research
Ethnographic Bibliography of North America
Factors in the Division of Labor by Sex: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
A division of labor betweeIl the sexes has long been recognized by economists, sociologists, and other behavioral scientists as (I) the original and most basic form of economic specialization and exchange, and as (2) the most fundamental basis of marriage and the family and hence the ultimate source of all forms of kinship organization. On the whole, however, scholars have focused their major attention on the consequences rather than the causes o…
Measurement of Cultural Complexity
When anthropologists differentiate cultures in terms of their relative complexity, they do not use the term complex in its ordinary, literal, or dictionary sense. What they imply, rather, is their status vis-2-vis one another with reference to one or more classificatory criteria which have been postulated to correlate with diderent levels or stages in cultural development. Examples are legion, e.g., literate as opposed to preliterate societies, f…
Settlement Patterns and Community Organization: Cross-Cultural Codes 3
Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered
During the brief period from 1700 to 1731 French missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators recorded the features of Natchez social life. In 1731 a war with the French led to the surrender and sale into slavery of one sector of the tribe and the dispersal of the remainder, who later were assimilated into the Creek confederacy. In writing the first modern ethnographic reconstruction of Natchez society and culture, Swanton (1911) had to r…
Anthropology's Mythology
Cross-Sex Patterns of Kin Behavior
Mother-in-law avoidance, compulsory joking between cross-cousins, and comparable stereotyped patterns of behavior toward other kinsmen, espe? cially of opposite sex, have challenged attempts at explanation from many eminent anthropologists, including Tylor (1889), Lowie (1920), RadcliffeBrown (1940), and Eggan (1937). Twenty years ago the author (Murdock 1949: 268-283) assembled information on such patterned behavior for a sample of 250 of the wo…
Kin Term Patterns and Their Distribution
Subsistence Economy and Supportive Practices: Cross-Cultural Codes 1
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample contains the best-described society in each of 186 cultural provinces of the world, chosen so that cultural independence of each unit in terms of historical origin and cultural diffusion could be considered maximal with respect to the others societies in the sample. Often the time period chosen is that of the earliest high quality ethnographic description. Hence the SCCS is primarily a sample of preindustrial so…
Tribesmen. M arshall D. S ahlins
Patterns of Sibling Terminology
This article explores the diverse patterns of sibling terminology across different cultures, aiming to identify underlying principles governing their classification. Murdock analyzes a sample of 268 societies, examining how terms for siblings vary based on factors like relative age, sex, and lineage. He argues that while certain broad tendencies exist, such as the widespread distinction between older and younger siblings, the specific terminology…
World Sampling Provinces
Culture and Society
Rejoinder to Goody
Cross-Cultural Sampling
This paper discusses the problem of achieving representative samples of cultural units for cross-cultural research. It examines the relative merits of sampling cultures by (1) geographical propinquity, (2) linguistic affiliation, and (3) random selection. The author concludes that random sampling is the only method that yields demonstrably representative samples and that permits the valid use of statistical inference in testing hypotheses
Culture and Society: Twenty-Four Essays
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample contains the best-described society in each of 186 cultural provinces of the world, chosen so that cultural independence of each unit in terms of historical origin and cultural diffusion could be considered maximal with respect to the others societies in the sample. Often the time period chosen is that of the earliest high quality ethnographic description. Hence the SCCS is primarily a sample of preindustrial so…
Africa: Its peoples and their culture history.
World Ethnographic Sample
Presents selected sample of all cultures known to history and ethnography and classifies each according to certain standard ethnographic categories. Explains selection process and cites importance of considering both the descriptive literature of an ethnographic sample and the structure of its known range of cultural variation. Outlines six ethnographic regions and presents a key for the classifications of cultural information in the following ar…
Factors in the Division of Labor by Sex: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
A division of labor betweeIl the sexes has long been recognized by economists, sociologists, and other behavioral scientists as (I) the original and most basic form of economic specialization and exchange, and as (2) the most fundamental basis of marriage and the family and hence the ultimate source of all forms of kinship organization. On the whole, however, scholars have focused their major attention on the consequences rather than the causes o…
Measurement of Cultural Complexity
When anthropologists differentiate cultures in terms of their relative complexity, they do not use the term complex in its ordinary, literal, or dictionary sense. What they imply, rather, is their status vis-2-vis one another with reference to one or more classificatory criteria which have been postulated to correlate with diderent levels or stages in cultural development. Examples are legion, e.g., literate as opposed to preliterate societies, f…
Settlement Patterns and Community Organization: Cross-Cultural Codes 3
On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the general concept of the basic culture-bearing unit and proposes a new definition-the cultunit. This proposal is a response to the need for units of cross-cultural surveys to be comparable and to be rigorously defined if these studies are to be validated statistically. Such anthropologists as Schapera, Berndt, Whiting, Evans-Pritchard, Reichard, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Ember, Murdock, Nadel, Leach and Driver have given muc…
Africa: Its People and Thier Culture Theory
Subsistence Economy and Supportive Practices: Cross-Cultural Codes 1
World Distribution of Theories of Illness
Anthropological attention was first drawn to the significance of theories of illness in I932 by Forrest E. Clements in a pioneer paper on Concepts of Disease (University of Californiv Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 32: I85-252). This clearly demonstrated that the explanations of illness current among most of the peoples of the world have little in common with those recognized by modern medical science and relate much more clos…
Our Primitive Contemporaries
Anthropology's Mythology
The Cross-Cultural Survey
F OR A NUMBER of years, the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University has been conducting a general program of research in the social sciences, with particular reference to the areas common to, and marginal between, the special sciences of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry. In I937, as one of the specific research projects on the anthropological and sociological side of this program, the CrossCultural Survey was organized.…
Africa: Its People and Their Culture History
The Science of Culture
Bbitish Social Anthropology
Organization of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Production among Non-Industrial Peoples
Studies in the Science of Society
Africa: Its Peoples and Their Culture History
Patterns of Sibling Terminology
This article explores the diverse patterns of sibling terminology across different cultures, aiming to identify underlying principles governing their classification. Murdock analyzes a sample of 268 societies, examining how terms for siblings vary based on factors like relative age, sex, and lineage. He argues that while certain broad tendencies exist, such as the widespread distinction between older and younger siblings, the specific terminology…
Kinship and Social Behavior Among the Haida
Kin Term Patterns and Their Distribution
In Search of Health: Essays in Medical Anthropology
Cross-Cultural Sampling
This paper discusses the problem of achieving representative samples of cultural units for cross-cultural research. It examines the relative merits of sampling cultures by (1) geographical propinquity, (2) linguistic affiliation, and (3) random selection. The author concludes that random sampling is the only method that yields demonstrably representative samples and that permits the valid use of statistical inference in testing hypotheses
South American Culture Areas
Methods and Principles: Systematic Sociology. Leopold von Wiese. Adapted and amplified by Howard Becker
The Evolution of Culture
The Science of Culture
Our Primitive Contemporaries
Kinship and Social Behavior Among the Haida
General: Verhandlungen des XXIV. Internationalen Amerikanisten‐Kongresses, 1930. R. G rossman and G. A ntze , eds
The Witoto Kinship System
Studies in the Science of Society
Aftermath: A Supplement to The Golden Bough
Northwest Sahaptin Texts
North America: St. Denis: A French‐Canadian Parish . H orace M iner
The Cross-Cultural Survey
F OR A NUMBER of years, the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University has been conducting a general program of research in the social sciences, with particular reference to the areas common to, and marginal between, the special sciences of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry. In I937, as one of the specific research projects on the anthropological and sociological side of this program, the CrossCultural Survey was organized.…
Double Descent
Oceania: Primitive Polynesian Economy. Raymond Firth
Anthropology and Human Relations
Bronislaw Malinowski
Latin America: The Folk Culture of Yucatan. Robert Redfield
Bifurcate Merging, a Test of Five Theories
Social Organization of Truk
Clark Wissler, 1870-1947
General. And Theoretical: Social Organization . R obert H. L owie
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath was the first comprehensive study ever undertaken of the attitudes of combat infantrymen in war. Working from large survey samples taken among infantrymen who fought in World War II, Samuel Stouffer and his associates presented the first data available on individual men’s feelings about their performance and motivation in combat. This volume became the essential source of data on soldiers for scholar…
The Ways of Men: An Introduction lo Anthropology. John Gillin
Murngin Social Organization
Family Stability in Non-European Cultures
THIS paper presents the conclusions of a special study of the stability of marriage in forty selected non-European societies undertaken in an attempt to place the family situation in the contemporary United States in cross-cultural perspective. Eight societies were chosen from each of the world's major ethnographic regions-Asia, Africa, Oceania, and native North and South America. Within each region the samples were carefully selected from widely…
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