Cross-Cultural Surveys Today

Burton, M.

doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.16.1.143

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“…This way he also appears to have been understood by other cross-culturalists. For example, Burton and White (1987) maintained that "Murdock emphasized the importance of warfare, slavery and capture of women in explaining both polygyny and patrilocal residence" (p. 154).…”

Section: Figure 2: Uxori-/matrilocality As a Frequent Alternative Resmentioning

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Division of Labor by Gender and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration

Korotayev¹

2003

Cross-Cultural Research

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First theories proposed to explain determinants of postmarital residence connected it with the division of labor by gender. However, at the moment all the cross-cultural tests of this hypothesis using worldwide samples have failed to find any significant relationship between these two variables. In the meantime, the alternative explanations of the postmarital residence led the author to expect that such a relationship would be found if the societies with an extremely low female contribution to subsistence were contrasted with the rest of the world cultures. There are reasons to expect that an extremely low female contribution should predict more or less strongly the nonmatrilocal residence and less strongly (but still significantly) the patrilocal residence. A series of worldwide crosscultural tests performed by the author using five various sets of coded data on female contribution to subsistence has fully supported this hypothesis.

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Section: Figure 2: Uxori-/matrilocality As a Frequent Alternative Resmentioning

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Division of Labor by Gender and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration

Korotayev¹

2003

Cross-Cultural Research

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“…Structural complexity is a 'phénomène social total': increasing complexity generates changes in social life, on the individual and collective level (Burton and White, 1987;Gellner, 1989;Goody, 2000). Extensive time allocation studies have revealed that the average work time in the course of agricultural evolution (until industrialization) at least doubled, parallel to rising population density and societal hierarchy.…”

Section: Sources Of Discipline and Organizational Capacitymentioning

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The Weight of the Past

Ziltener

Mueller

2007

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Twenty years ago, Lenski and Nolan published a seminal article in which they established empi rical links between modern development and traditional technology in developing countries. This analysis is expanded in two ways: by improving the indicators of traditional tech nologies, and by introducing a second dimension of structural complexity, the sociopolitical differentiation of traditional societies. Though two indices measure func tio nally related aspects, they have distinct impacts on the socio-economic development of the 65 non-western countries analyzed in this article. Since traditional socio-political differentiation explains modern deve lop ment better than traditional technology, we suggest signi ficant revisions, and a new inter pretation of Lenski and Nolan's results.

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“…Although the first statistical cross-cultural anthropological studies had already been conducted in the late nineteenth century, the approach began to be more widely used in the 1930s and 1940s (for overviews, see Burton and White, 1987;Ember and Ember, 1998;Naroll, 1970). The principal aim of cross-cultural comparison is to discover, explore, and confirm systemic relationships in social and cultural life.…”

Section: Explaining the Geographical Distribution Of Indigenous Gamblingmentioning

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“…Prevalence of gambling in 60 pre-capitalist societies (source data: Pryor, 1976) Gambling Across Cultures 9 methods. There has been concern over a number of methodological and theoretical problems (Burton and White, 1987;Ember and Ember, 1998), such as: what should constitute a 'case'-a single community, a tribe, or a society; how should a representative world sample of cultures be composed; and is it at all possible to dissect a culture, identifying specific quantifiable variables that are assumed to be the 'same' as in other cultures? There is also the problem of coding the worldwide variety of cultural phenomena in discrete variables, a problem which is especially pertinent with respect to 'high-inference variables', such as those relating to the beliefs and psychological states of the person; gambling and games, however, are 'low-inference variables', easy to assess by the ethnographer.…”

Section: Explaining the Geographical Distribution Of Indigenous Gamblingmentioning

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Gambling Across Cultures: Mapping Worldwide Occurrence and Learning from Ethnographic Comparison

Binde¹

2005

International Gambling Studies

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This paper first maps the distribution of indigenous gambling in cultures around the world. On the basis of extensive ethnographic and historical evidence, it is concluded that gambling is not a universal phenomenon; prior to the era of European colonisation, non-gambling societies appear to have covered large areas of the globe. The pattern of gambling and non-gambling peoples and nations invites speculation and investigation. The second part of the paper reviews and critically discusses statistical cross-cultural studies that have aimed to uncover factors that promote or restrain the playing of games of chance and the practice of gambling. Some of these factors, which allow us to predict to a certain extent the presence and intensity of gambling in societies, are: the presence of commercially used money, social inequality, societal complexity, and the presence of certain kinds of competitive inter-tribal relations.

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Cross-Cultural Surveys Today

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Division of Labor by Gender and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration

Division of Labor by Gender and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration

The Weight of the Past

Gambling Across Cultures: Mapping Worldwide Occurrence and Learning from Ethnographic Comparison

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