| Discipline | Cross-cultural studies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Greg Truex |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1985–present |
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| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | World Cult. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 2373-7573 |
| OCLC no. | 276957013 |
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World Cultures is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal of cross-cultural studies. It was founded in 1985 by Douglas R. White, who served as the editor-in-chief until 1990. Subsequently, Greg Truex assumed this role in 1991, followed by J. Patrick Gray, who held the position from 1992 to 2014. Greg Truex returned as editor-in-chief in 2015 and continued in this capacity until 2016. William Divale was the publisher until 2008 when the journal transitioned from a print and CD-ROM format to an online format.
The journal is hosted as an eScholarship journal, primarily dedicated to publishing cross-cultural research articles, computerized codebooks, and datasets. These resources encompass a wide range of subjects, including the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, Western North American Indians, an Atlas of Archaeology, the Ethnographic Atlas (compiled by Murdock in 1967), and Lewis Binford's work titled "Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets" (published in 2001), among numerous other topics. Additionally, the journal has also published various software programs designed for cross-cultural analysis.
Background
Part of the purpose of the journal is to provide codebooks and data that are in the public domain for scientific use, at minimal cost of distribution, both to support scientific work and instructional use. New as well as legacy issues of the journal are at the free on-line site of the California Digital Library. The largest of the databases supported by the journal to date are the contributed multiauthored coded data for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, now numbering over 2,000 coded variables on 186 societies by over 90 different contributing authors.
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