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Presents selected sample of all cultures known to history and ethnography and classifies each according to certain standard ethnographic categories. Explains selection process and cites importance of considering both the descriptive literature of an ethnographic sample and the structure of its known range of cultural variation. Outlines six ethnographic regions and presents a key for the classifications of cultural information in the following areas: cultivated plants and domestic animals; agriculture; husbandry; fishing; hunting and gathering; settlement pattern and community organization; family and household; marital residence; marriage; kin groups exogamy and terminology; social stratification; and political integration and succession. Discusses analysis of the tabulation of data in terms of "adhesions," or associations within cultures
George Peter Murdock (Tue,) studied this question.