Harold E Driver
Biographic Data
| ID | 97252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold E Driver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold E |
| FAMILY NAME | Driver |
| SIGNATURE | DRIVER H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 383 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Classification and Development of North American Indian Cultures: A Statistical Analysis of the Driver-Massey Sample
Harold E. Driver, James L. Coffin, Classification and Development of North American Indian Cultures: A Statistical Analysis of the Driver-Massey Sample, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3 (1975), pp. 1-120
Culture Groups and Language Groups in Native North America
Reply to Opler on Apachean Subsistence, Residence, and Girls' Puberty Rites
Archaeological evidence shows that Apaches occupied the central Plains area from A.D. 1525–1725 in Wyoming, South Dakota. Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado. Toward the end of this period they were semi‐sedentary farmers living in houses generically like those of the Plains‐Prairies earth lodge. Because in their southward migration they contacted Plains‐Prairies farmers earlier than those in the Southwest proper, and farming was women‐dominated and r…
Statistical Classification of North American Indian Ethnic Units
General and Theoretical: The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry . Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune. Preface by Robert T. Holt and John E. Turner
Brown and Driver on Girls' Puberty Rites Again
A Comment on "Evaluation of a Stratified versus an Unstratified Universe of Cultures in Comparative Research," by Lenora Greenbaum
Continuity and Emergence in Indian Poverty Culture [and Comments and Reply]
A relatively conservative cultural model of the Ojibwa, deriving from studies of Canadian peoples, has tended to dominate anthropological analysis of reservation Ojibwa both in the United States and Canada. Ethnopsychological approaches to Ojibwa history have focused professional attention on the persistence of relatively unimportant surviving remnants of Ojibwa culture and distracted it from more important contemporary sociological factors that …
Folk Song Style and Culture: A Staff Report on Cantometrics
Statistical Refutation of Comparative Functional-Causal Models
The variables correlated by Murdock in his Social Structure (1949) were selected to demonstrate positive relationships anticipated in advance. Coult and Habenstein's (1965) printout of Murdock's (1957) "World Ethnographic Sample," in contrast, computes all the bivariate relationships among the 210 trait categories. The thousands of phi coefficients average close to zero, and the standard deviation about this average is only slightly greater than …
Indians of North America
The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories - a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organizati…
Girls' Puberty Rites and Matrilocal Residence
This paper challenges the view of Judith K. Brown (1961) and Peter Kloos (1969) that matrilocal residence tends to cause girls' puberty rites. It shows how improbable this hypothesis is for western North America, where data are plentiful, and suggests that it is unlikely for the rest of the world. Girls' puberty rites seem to be earlier in most localities because of much greater world frequency and dominance among hunters, gatherers, and fishers,…
American Historical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Leslie Spier. Carroll L. Riley and Walter W. Taylor, eds
On the Population Nadir of Indians in the United States
Some Implications of the Theory of the Particularity, or "Atomism," of Northern Algonkians [and Comments and Reply]
The article reviews the background of theories held on the organization of northern Algonkians, especially those relating to the persistence of "atomism" in the social organization and personality structure. It presents ethnohistorical and other evidence that protohistoric Algonkians lived in far more cohesive communities than is generally thought. The atomism theory is antithetical to theories of Morgan and the Marxists, especially to those conc…
Why Exceptions? The Logic of Cross-Cultural Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the factors causing exceptions to rules in the social sciences in general and in social anthropology in particular. Exceptions may occur through defective classification by ethnologists. For example, the ethnologist may define the phenomena under consideration poorly. The importance of using operational definitions must therefore be stressed. He may class phenomena in the same category without making sure that their frequency…
Correlational Analysis of Murdocks 1957 Ethnographic Sample1
This paper parallels that of Sawyer and LeVine (1966) in some respects: it reduces Murdock's 210 categories to 30 variables, and intercorrelates and factor-analyzes the variables for the six world subdivisions as well as for the entire world. Differences from Sawyer's and LeVine's treatment include the use of Cramér's coefficient to compare all categories, the opposition of the modal category to the others to produce the 30 dichotomous variables,…
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Acorns: The Staple Food of the California Indians
Geographical-Historical Versus Psycho-Functional Explanations of Kin Avoidances
Avoidances between the various combinations of parents-in-law and children-in-law in native North America are used to demonstrate a new method of measuring the potency of geographical-historical versus psycho-functional explanations of comparative data. A brief historical review assembles the principal ex-planation of kin avoidances employed by previous researchers. The psycho-functional explanations are: incest-phobia between persons of opposite…
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…
Aboriginal California: Three Studies in Culture History
Ethnography and Acculturation of the Chichimeca-Jonaz of Northeast Mexico
General and Ethnology: Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America. Charles Miles
Indians of North America
Comparative Studies of North American Indians
Indians of North America
The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories - a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organizati…
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…
Geographical-Historical Versus Psycho-Functional Explanations of Kin Avoidances
Avoidances between the various combinations of parents-in-law and children-in-law in native North America are used to demonstrate a new method of measuring the potency of geographical-historical versus psycho-functional explanations of comparative data. A brief historical review assembles the principal ex-planation of kin avoidances employed by previous researchers. The psycho-functional explanations are: incest-phobia between persons of opposite…
Correlational Analysis of Murdocks 1957 Ethnographic Sample1
This paper parallels that of Sawyer and LeVine (1966) in some respects: it reduces Murdock's 210 categories to 30 variables, and intercorrelates and factor-analyzes the variables for the six world subdivisions as well as for the entire world. Differences from Sawyer's and LeVine's treatment include the use of Cramér's coefficient to compare all categories, the opposition of the modal category to the others to produce the 30 dichotomous variables,…
Why Exceptions? The Logic of Cross-Cultural Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the factors causing exceptions to rules in the social sciences in general and in social anthropology in particular. Exceptions may occur through defective classification by ethnologists. For example, the ethnologist may define the phenomena under consideration poorly. The importance of using operational definitions must therefore be stressed. He may class phenomena in the same category without making sure that their frequency…
Factor Analysis of Ethnographic Data
Girls' Puberty Rites and Matrilocal Residence
This paper challenges the view of Judith K. Brown (1961) and Peter Kloos (1969) that matrilocal residence tends to cause girls' puberty rites. It shows how improbable this hypothesis is for western North America, where data are plentiful, and suggests that it is unlikely for the rest of the world. Girls' puberty rites seem to be earlier in most localities because of much greater world frequency and dominance among hunters, gatherers, and fishers,…
Statistics in Anthropology
Folk Song Style and Culture: A Staff Report on Cantometrics
Some Implications of the Theory of the Particularity, or "Atomism," of Northern Algonkians [and Comments and Reply]
The article reviews the background of theories held on the organization of northern Algonkians, especially those relating to the persistence of "atomism" in the social organization and personality structure. It presents ethnohistorical and other evidence that protohistoric Algonkians lived in far more cohesive communities than is generally thought. The atomism theory is antithetical to theories of Morgan and the Marxists, especially to those conc…
On the Population Nadir of Indians in the United States
Continuity and Emergence in Indian Poverty Culture [and Comments and Reply]
A relatively conservative cultural model of the Ojibwa, deriving from studies of Canadian peoples, has tended to dominate anthropological analysis of reservation Ojibwa both in the United States and Canada. Ethnopsychological approaches to Ojibwa history have focused professional attention on the persistence of relatively unimportant surviving remnants of Ojibwa culture and distracted it from more important contemporary sociological factors that …
A Factor Analysis of Sixteen Primitive Societies
Statistical Classification of North American Indian Ethnic Units
Classification and Development of North American Indian Cultures: A Statistical Analysis of the Driver-Massey Sample
Harold E. Driver, James L. Coffin, Classification and Development of North American Indian Cultures: A Statistical Analysis of the Driver-Massey Sample, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3 (1975), pp. 1-120
Brown and Driver on Girls' Puberty Rites Again
Indians of North America
Estimation of Intensity of Land Use from Ethnobiology: Applied to the Yuma Indians
In the western part of the United States the landscape exhibits a great range of variation in topography and climate with great variation, also, in life zones and in the value of these zones to the economy of the Indian. Where sharp contrasts in geographical environment are to be found within the territory or range of a single tribe it is possible to estimate from ethnobiology how much each of two or more environments provided in the way of raw m…
Concerning the Proto-athapaskan Kinship System
Kulturkreise and Statistics
The Measurement of Geographical Distribution Form
Material Aspects of Pomo Culture. S. A. Barrett
Statistics in Anthropology
A Factor Analysis of Sixteen Primitive Societies
Ethnographic Maps
Comparative Studies of North American Indians
Ethnology and Ethnography: An Ethno‐Atlas: A Student's Manual of Tribal, Linguistic, and Racial Groupings. Robert F. Spencer
An Ethno-Atlas
Estimation of Intensity of Land Use from Ethnobiology: Applied to the Yuma Indians
In the western part of the United States the landscape exhibits a great range of variation in topography and climate with great variation, also, in life zones and in the value of these zones to the economy of the Indian. Where sharp contrasts in geographical environment are to be found within the territory or range of a single tribe it is possible to estimate from ethnobiology how much each of two or more environments provided in the way of raw m…
Factor Analysis of Ethnographic Data
Ethnology and Ethnography: Ethnographic Interpretations 1–6. A. L. Kroeber
Concerning the Proto-athapaskan Kinship System
North American Indian Languages: Classification and Maps . George L. Trager , Felicia E. Harben
Ethnology and Ethnography: Status Terminology and the Social Structure of North American Indians . M unro S. E dmonson
Ethnology and Ethnography: Migrations in New World Culture History . Raymond H. THOMPSON
Ethnology: Fishing among the Indians of Northwestern California . A. L. Kroeber and S. A. Barrett
Indians of North America
Indians of North America
Indians of North America
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…
Aboriginal California: Three Studies in Culture History
Ethnography and Acculturation of the Chichimeca-Jonaz of Northeast Mexico
General and Ethnology: Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America. Charles Miles
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