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After graduating from Columbia College, Melvin Ember went to Yale University for his Ph.D. His mentor at Yale was George Peter Murdock, an anthropologist who was instrumental in promoting cross-cultural research and building a full-text database on the cultures of the world to facilitate cross-cultural hypothesis testing. This database came to be known as the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) because it was originally sponsored by the Institute of Human Relations at Yale. Growing in annual installments and now distributed in electronic format, the HRAF database currently covers more than 370 cultures, past and present, all over the world. He did fieldwork for his dissertation in American Samoa, where he conducted a comparison of three villages to study the effects of commercialization on political life. In addition, he did research on descent groups and how they changed with the increase of buying and selling. His cross-cultural studies focused originally on variation in marital residence and descent groups. He also conducted cross-cultural research on the relationship between economic and political development, the origin and extension of the incest taboo, the causes of polygamy, and how archaeological correlates of social customs can help draw inferences about the past. After four years of research at the National Institute of Mental Health, he taught at Antioch College and then Hunter College of the City University of New York. Heserved as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and was president (since 1987) of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., a nonprofit research agency at Yale University, until his passing.
Anthropology , 13e
Brief Table of Contents
Part I Introduction
CHAPTER 1 What Is Anthropology? CHAPTER 2 History of Anthropological TheoryCHAPTER 3 Research Methods in Anthropology
Part II Human Evolution
CHAPTER 4 Genetics and Evolution CHAPTER 5 Human Variation and AdaptationCHAPTER 6 The Living Primates CHAPTER 7 Primate Evolution: From Early Primates to Hominoids CHAPTER 8 The First Hominids
Part III Cultural Evolution
CHAPTER 9 The Origins of Culture and the Emergence of Homo CHAPTER 10 The Emergence of Homo sapiens CHAPTER 11 The Upper Paleolithic World CHAPTER 12 Origins of Food Production and Settled Life CHAPTER 13 Origins of Cities and States
Part IV Cultural Variation
CHAPTER 14 Culture and Culture Change CHAPTER 15 Communication and Language CHAPTER 16 Getting Food CHAPTER 17 Economic Systems CHAPTER 18 Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism CHAPTER 19 Culture and the IndividualCHAPTER 20 Sex, Gender, and Culture CHAPTER 21 Marriage and the Family CHAPTER 22 Marital Residence and Kinship CHAPTER 23 Associations and Interest Groups CHAPTER 24 Political Life: Social Order and Disorder CHAPTER 25 Religion and Magic CHAPTER 26 The Arts
Part V Using Anthropology
CHAPTER 27 Applied, Practicing, and Medical Anthropology CHAPTER 28 Global Problems
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