CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Birth: January 13, 1933
Education:
B.A., with Honors and Distinction in Anthropology, Columbia University, 1953.
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1958.
Appointments:
Assistant in Instruction, Department of Culture and Behavior, Yale College, 1956-57.
Social Science Analyst (Research Anthropologist), Laboratory of Socio-Environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, 1959-63.
Faculty Member, The Graduate Program at the National Institutes of Health, 1961-63.
Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, American University, 1961, 1963.
Assistant to Associate Professor of Anthropology, Antioch College, 1963-67.
Director, First Summer Institute in Cross-Cultural Research, University of Pittsburgh, 1964.
Lecturer, Third Summer Institute in Cross-Cultural Research, University of Pittsburgh, 1966.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1967-December 1970.
Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, January 1971-August 1989 (on leave 1987-89).
Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1968-73.
Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1973-75.
President, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., Yale University, 1987- .
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Yale University, Fall Semester 1992.
Fellowships and Grants:
University Fellowship, Yale University, 1953-54.
Junior Sterling Fellowship, Yale University, 1954-55.
Grant from the Tri-Institutional Pacific Program for field research in American Samoa, 1955-56.
University Fellowship, Yale University, summer 1956.
Junior Sterling Fellowship, Yale University, 1956-57.
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, Yale University, 1957-58.
NIMH Grant (with Clellan S. Ford) for "A Preliminary Survey of Cross-Cultural Studies Relating to Health," Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, 1959.
NSF Grant for undergraduate instructional equipment, Antioch College, 1965-66.
NSF Grant for "Cross-Cultural Studies of Marital Residence," Antioch College, 1966-67.
NIMH Grant for "Cross-Cultural Studies of First Cousin Marriage," Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1968-69.
Renewal of NIMH Grant for "Cross-Cultural Studies of First Cousin Marriage," Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1969-70.
NSF Grant for "The Archeology of Cultural Behavior," Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1970-71.
NSF Grant for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, February 1983-August 1984.
Grant from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, July 1, 1986-June 30, 1987.
NSF Grant for "Cross-Cultural Tests of Ecological, Psychological, and Social Explanations of Warfare and Interpersonal Aggression" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, June 1, 1986-May 31, 1988.
Grant from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, July 1, 1987-June 30, 1988.
NSF Grant for a "Conference to Assess the Past and Help Plan the Future of Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember, Joseph G. Jorgensen, Robert L. Munroe, and Douglas White), conference held at Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, March 1988.
NSF Grant for "A Cross-Cultural Study of Political Participation and Peace" (Co-Principal Investigator with Bruce M. Russett and Carol R. Ember), Human Relations Area Files, May 1, 1990-April 30, 1992.
Grant from the United States Institute of Peace for "A Cross-Cultural Study of Political Participation and Peace" (Co-Principal Investigator with Bruce M. Russett and Carol R. Ember), Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, May 1, 1990-April 30, 1992.
Honors:
Member of Executive Committee (1971- ), Human Relations Area Files, Inc.
Secretary of the Corporation (1973-81), Human Relations Area Files, Inc.
Advisory Editor, Behavior Science Research, 1974-82.
President, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, 1981-82.
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., 1981-1987.
Editor, Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science (formerly Behavior Science Research), 1982- .
Invited to contribute to special 40th anniversary issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research, 1984.
Selected as one of the authors reprinted in special issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research on "Approaches to Culture," 1986.
Consultant and Contributing Editor, Webster's New World College Dictionary, 3rd edition, 1988, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Consultant, The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd edition, 1988, New York: Random House.
Will Judy Lecturer, Juniata College, March 1993.
Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the East.
Member of Executive Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 3 vols., 1999, San Diego: Academic Press.
Consultant and Contributing Editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, 1999, New York: Macmillan USA.
Cross-Cultural Research Methods (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2001), by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002.
Books:
1973 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1977 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Second Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1981 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Third Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1983 Marriage, Family, and Kinship: Comparative Studies of Social Organization (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). New Haven: HRAF Press.
1985 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Fourth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1988 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Fifth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1990 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Sixth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1992 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1993 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Seventh Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1995 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Second Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1996 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Eighth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
1996 Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, 4 vols. (David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds.). New York: Henry Holt.
1997 Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (by Burton Pasternak, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
1997 American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation (David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds.), 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference.
1998 Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals (Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, David Levinson, eds.), 4 vols. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Research Frontiers in Anthropology (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine, eds.), 3 vols. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds.). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Third Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
1999 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Ninth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
1999 Cultures of the World: Selections from the Ten-Volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds.). New York: Macmillan Reference.
2000 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Fourth Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
2001 Cross-Cultural Research Methods (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
2001 Countries and Their Cultures (Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds.), 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference/Gale.
2001/02 Encyclopedia of Prehistory (Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds.), 9 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2002 Anthropology, Tenth Edition (by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2002 Cultural Anthropology, Tenth Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2002 Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2002 Archaeology: Original Readings in Method and Practice (Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember, eds.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2002 Physical Anthropology: Original Readings in Method and Practice (Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember, eds.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2002 Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Supplement (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds.). New York: Macmillan Reference/Gale.
2002 Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures Around the World (Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds.), 4 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier/Scholastic.
2003 New Directions in Anthropology (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, CD-ROM.
2003 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Fifth Edition (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2004 Cultural Anthropology, 11th Edition (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2004 Anthropology, 11th Edition (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2004 Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds.), 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2004 Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds.), 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2005 Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World (Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds.), 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2007 Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine). 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2007 Cultural Anthropology, 12th Edition (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2007 Anthropology, 12th Edition (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2009 Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Peter N. Peregrine). Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology, 6th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2009 Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Peter N. Peregrine). Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology, 6th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Articles:
1959 The Nonunilinear Descent Groups of Samoa. American Anthropologist 61: 573-77. Reprinted in Polynesia: Readings on a Culture Area, Alan Howard, ed., 1971, pp. 78-83, Scranton, PA: Chandler.
1962 Political Authority and the Structure of Kinship in Aboriginal Samoa. American Anthropologist 64: 964-71. Reprinted in Polynesia: Readings on a Culture Area, Alan Howard, ed, 1971, pp. 84-92, Scranton, PA: Chandler.
1962 The Nature of Samoan Kinship Structure. Man 62:124.
1963 The Relationship Between Economic and Political Development in Nonindustrialized Societies. Ethnology 2: 228-48.
1963 Reply to Holmes. American Anthropologist 65: 1130-33.
1964 Commercialization and Political Change in American Samoa. In Explorations in Cultural Anthropology: Essays in Honor of George Peter Murdock, Ward H. Goodenough, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. Pp. 95-110.
1964 Reply to Freeman: A Rejoinder. American Anthropologist 66:620-22.
1964 Comment on Raoul Naroll's "On Ethnic Unit Classification." Current Anthropology 5:296.
1966 Samoan Kinship and Political Structure: An Archaeological Test to Decide Between the Two Alternative Reconstructions (Ember's vs. Freeman's). American Anthropologist 68:163-68.
1967 The Emergence of Neolocal Residence. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 30:291-302. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1970 Taxonomy in Comparative Studies. In A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology, Raoul Naroll and Ronald Cohen, eds. New York: Natural History Press. Pp. 697-706.
1971 An Empirical Test of Galton's Problem. Ethnology 10:98-106.
1971 The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). American Anthropologist 73:571-94. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R.Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1972 The Conditions Favoring Multilocal Residence (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 28:382-400. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R.Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1973 An Archaelogical Indicator of Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence. American Antiquity 38:177-82. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1974 Warfare, Sex-Ratio, and Polygyny. Ethnology 13:197-206. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1974 The Conditions That May Favor Avunculocal Residence. Behavior Science Research 9:203-09. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1974 On the Development of Unilineal Descent (by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Burton Pasternak). Journal of Anthropological Research 30:69-94. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1975 Comment on "Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution" by David J. Strauss and Martin Orans. Current Anthropology 16:586-87.
1975 On the Origin and Extension of the Incest Taboo. Behavior Science Research 10:249-81. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1976 On the Conditions Favoring Extended Family Households (by Burton Pasternak, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). Journal of Anthropological Research 32:109-23. Reprinted in special issue, "Approaches to Culture and Society," Journal of Anthropological Research 42 (1986):299-313. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1977 How Cross-Cultural Researchers Relate to Their Professions. In "Issues in Cross-Cultural Research," L. L. Adler, ed. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 285:217-18.
1978 Size of Color Lexicon: Interaction of Cultural and Biological Factors. American Anthropologist 80:364-67.
1978 Comment on "Residence and Descent Is Hyperdiffusional?" (by David Strauss and Martin Orans). Behavior Science Research 13:226.
1979 Male-Female Bonding: A Cross-Species Study of Mammals and Birds (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Behavior Science Research 14:37-56. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R.Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1979 Psychosexual Predictors of the Gender of Objective Nouns in French: An Exploratory Study (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Ethos 7:51-67.
1980 Funeral Customs. Academic American Encyclopedia. Princeton, N.J.: Arete Publishing Co.
1980 Marriage. Academic American Encyclopedia. Princeton, N.J.: Arete Publishing Co.
1981 Reply to Liebow. Behavior Science Research 16:75-78.
1982 Statistical Evidence for an Ecological Explanation of Warfare. American Anthropologist 84:645-649.
1983 A Look at the Future of Comparative Studies (1982 Presidential Address to the Society for Cross-Cultural Research). Behavior Science Research 18:141-153.
1984 The Evolution of Human Female Sexuality: A Cross-Species Perspective (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Special 40th anniversary issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research 40:202-210.
1985 Evidence and Science in Ethnography: Reflections on the Freeman-Mead Controversy. American Anthropologist 87:906-910.
1985 Alternative Predictors of Polygyny. Behavior Science Research 19:1-23.
1988 The Human Relations Area Files: Past and Future. Behavior Science Research 22: 97-104.
1991 Murdock, George Peter. In International Dictionary of Anthropologists, Christopher Winters, ed. New York: Garland, pp. 493-494.
1991 The Logic of Comparative Research. In special issue on “Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research: Theory and Method,” Behavior Science Research 25: 143-153.
1991 Sampling in Cross-Cultural Research (by Melvin Ember and Keith F. Otterbein). In special issue on "Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research: Theory and Method," Behavior Science Research 25: 217-233.
1992 Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War: A Cross-Cultural Study (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Journal of Conflict Resolution 36: 242-262.
1992 Peace Between Participatory Polities: A Cross-Cultural Test of the “Democracies Rarely Fight Each Other” Hypothesis (by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Bruce Russett). World Politics 44 (4): 573-599.
1992 Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: Cross-Cultural Codes (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Behavior Science Research 26: 169-226.
1993 Political Participation and Peace: Cross-Cultural Codes (by Carol R. Ember, Bruce Russett and Melvin Ember). Cross-Cultural Research (formerly Behavior Science Research) 27: 97-145.
1993 The Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies (by Bruce Russett, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). In Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World (by Bruce Russett, with the collaboration of William Antholis, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Zeev Maoz). Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 99-118.
1993 Issues in Cross-Cultural Studies of Interpersonal Violence (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). In special issue on "Sociocultural Aspects of Violent Behavior," Violence and Victims 8: 217-233. Reprinted in Interpersonal Violent Behaviors: Social and Cultural Aspects, R. Barry Ruback and Neil Alan Weiner, eds. New York: Springer, 1995, pp. 25-42.
1994 Cross-Cultural Studies of War and Peace: Recent Achievements and Future Possibilities (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). In Studying War: Anthropological Perspectives, S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs, eds. New York: Gordon & Breach, pp. 185-208.
1994 War, Socialization, and Interpersonal Violence: A Cross-Cultural Study (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Journal of Conflict Resolution 38: 620-646.
1994 Prescriptions for Peace: Policy Implications of Cross-Cultural Research on War and Interpersonal Violence (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Cross-Cultural Research 28:343-350.
1995 Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: SCCS Codes (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). World Cultures 9: 17-57. (An abridged, electronic version of Ember and Ember [1992c], "Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: Cross-Cultural Codes.")
1995 Cross-Cultural Studies and Their Relevance for Archaeology (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Journal of Archaeological Research 3: 87-111.
1996 What Have We Learned From Cross-Cultural Research? (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). General Anthropology (Bulletin of the Council for General Anthropology), vol. 2, no. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 1, 5-7.
1996 Science in Anthropology (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). In The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions, Conrad Kottak, Jane White, Richard Furlow, and Patricia Rice, eds. Mountainview, CA: Mayfield, pp. 29-33.
1997 Evolution of the Human Relations Area Files. Cross-Cultural Research 31: 3-15.
1997 Aggression, Crime, and Warfare (by Marshall H. Segall, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). In Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 3: Social Behavior and Applications, Second Edition, J.W. Berry, M.H. Segall, and C. Kagitcibasi, eds. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, pp. 213-254.
1997 Inequality and Democracy in the Anthropological Record (by Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Bruce Russett). In Inequality, Democracy, and Economic evelpment, Manus I. Midlarsky, ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp.110-130.
1997 Violence in the Ethnographic Record: Results of Cross-Cultural Research on War and Aggression (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). In Troubled Times: Osteological and Archaeological Evidence of Violence (War and Society Series, Vol. 6), Debra Martin and David Frayer, eds. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, pp. 1-20.
1998 On Cross-Cultural Research (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). In Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Cross-Cultural Research (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, H. Russell Bernard, ed. Walnut Creek: AltaMiraPress, pp. 647-687.
1998 Facts of Violence (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Anthropology Newsletter, October, pp. 14-15.
1998 Of War and Peace (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Anthropology Newsletter, November, p. 9.
1999 Cross-Language Predictors of Consonant-Vowel Syllables (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). American Anthropologist 101: 730-742.
2000 Teaching Critical Evaluation of Rushton (by Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). Anthropology News 41: 2 (February): 29-30.
2000 Testing Theory and Why the “Units of Analysis” Problem Is Not a Problem (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Ethnology 39: 349-363.
2000 High CV Score: Regular Rhythm or Sonority? (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember) American Anthropologist 102: 848-851.
2001 eHRAF Archaeology on the Web (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). The SAA Archaeological Record, March, pp. 25-26.
2001 Databases, core: Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. New York: Elsevier Science.
2001 Myths About Preindustrial War: Possible Lessons for Peace from Worldwide Cross- Cultural Research (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). In Cross-Cultural Approaches to Aggression and Reconciliation, J. Martin Ramirez and Deborah S. Richardson, eds. Huntington, NY: NovaScience, pp. 149-166.
2001 Making the World More Peaceful: Policy Implications of Cross-Cultural Research (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). In Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on Its Victims, Manuela Martinez, ed. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 331-338.
2002 Father-Absence and Male Aggression: A Re-Examination of the Comparative Evidence (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Ethos (special issue in honor of Beatrice B. Whiting) 29: 296-314.
2003 Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Predicted Associations between Race and Behavior (by Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Evolution and Human Behavior 24: 357-364.
2003 Gender-Based Social Groups (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, 2 vols. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. Pp. 128-136.
2004 Toward the Evolution of a More Civil World (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). Social Evolution & History 3: 137-161.
2004 Universal Patterns in Cultural Evolution: An Empirical Analysis Using Guttman Scaling (by Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). American Anthropologist, 106: 145-149.
2004 Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy (by Peter N. Peregrine, Melvin Ember, and Carol R. Ember). Special Issue. The Future State of the World: An Anthropological Symposium. Robert Bates Graber, Guest Editor. Cross-Cultural Research, 38: 133-146.
2005 Valuing Thinness or Fatness in Women: Re-evaluating the Effect of Resource Scarcity. (by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Andrey Korotayev, and Victor de Munck). Evolution and Human Behavior, 26: 257-270.
2005 Explaining Corporal Punishment of Children: A Cross-Cultural Study (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). American Anthropologist, 107: 609-619.
2006 Cross-Cultural Research as a Rosetta Stone for Discovering the Original Homelands of Protolanguage Groups (by Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Peter N. Peregrine, and Sergei Starostin). Special Issue: Strategies of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. Carol R. Ember, Guest Editor. Cross-Cultural Research, 40: 18-28.
2007 Effects of the Physical and Social Environment on Culture: Results of Cross-Cultural Tests (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). In Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson, eds. Paradigm Publishers, pp. 153-166.
2007 Modeling State Origins Using Cross-Cultural Data (by Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Cross-Cultural Research 41: 75-86.
2007 Climate, Econiche, and Sexuality: Influences on Sonority in Language (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). American Anthropologist 109: 180-185.
2007 Rejoinder to Munroe and Fought’s Commentary (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember).American Anthropologist 109: 785.
2007 War and the Socialization of Children: Comparing Two Evolutionary Models (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Cross-Cultural Research 41: 96-122.
2007 Comparing Explanations of Polygyny (by Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember and Bobbi S. Low. Cross-Cultural Research 41: 428-40.
n.d. Cross-Cultural Research in the Study of Migration: Cultural Features and Language (by Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). In Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman, eds. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Pamphlets:
1988 Guide to Cross-Cultural Research Using the HRAF Archive (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
1998 HRAF Collection of Ethnography: Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
2000 HRAF in the 21st Century: Blueprint for the Future After 50 Years. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
Reviews:
1957 Work and Life in Raroia by Bengt Danielsson. Journal of the Polynesian Society, winter issue.
1961 Classification of Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst Groote Eylandt Aborigines by Frederick G. G. Rose. Eugenics Quarterly 8:237-38.
1964 Incest: the Nature and Origin of the Taboo by Emile Durkheim and Origins and the Development of the Incest Taboo by Albert Ellis. American Anthropologist 66:1404-05.
1964 Pacific Port Towns and Cities: A Symposium edited by Alexander Spoehr. American Anthropologist 66:1422-23.
1965 The Transition From Childhood to Adolescence by Yehudi A. Cohen. American Anthropologist 67:1039-40.
1969 A Cross-Cultural Summary compiled by Robert B. Textor. American Anthropologist 71:918-20.
1973 Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year edited by Priscilla Reining. American Anthropologist 75:1782-83.
1981 Cross-Cultural Samples and Codes edited by Herbert Barry III and Alice Schlegel. Ethology and Sociobiology 2:283-84.
1986 Warfare, Culture, and Environment edited by R. Brian Ferguson. American Anthropologist 88:463-464.