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Printed in the United States of America Printing number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Front cover photos (clockwise from top): Aymara man with llamas © Gian Berto Vanni/Corbis Japanese kindergarten students © Don Stevenson/Mira Hooded men at Oaxaca Festival © Liba Taylor/Corbis Kava Ceremony, Fiji © Charles & Josette Lenars/Corbis Wedding service in a Russian Orthodox church © Dean Conger/Corbis Egyptian ranger battalion demonstration © Corbis Boy eating lobster at Friendship Regatta festivities © Dean Conger/Corbis Akha villagers perform a Chi Ji Tsi ritual © Michael Freeman/Corbis. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Countries and their cultures / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Macmillan Reference USA 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. The HRAF Collection of Archaeology, the first installment of which appeared in 1999, is also accessible on the Web to those member institutions opting to receive it.Ĭountries and Their Cultures Copyright © 2001 Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of Gale Group All rights reserved. An increasing portion of the Collection of Ethnography, which now covers more than 365 cultures, is accessible via the World Wide Web to member institutions. The HRAF Collection of Ethnography, which has been building since 1949, contains nearly one million pages of information, indexed according to more than 700 subject categories, on the cultures of the world. The mission of HRAF is to provide information that facilitates the cross-cultural study of human behavior, society, and culture. The foremost international research organization in the field of cultural anthropology, HRAF is a not-for-profit consortium of 19 Sponsoring Member institutions and more than 400 active and inactive Associate Member institutions in nearly 40 countries. WHITTEN, JR., University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignĬountries and Their Cultures was prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. SABLOFF, University of Pennsylvania NORMAN E. PARMAN, California State University, Fullerton PAULA L. LENNIHAN, City University of New York SUSAN M. PAUL DURRENBERGER, Pennsylvania State University STEVAN HARRELL, University of Washington PAUL HOCKINGS, University of Illinois, Chicago CONRAD P. RUSSELL BERNARD, University of Florida E. EMBER, Executive Director, Human Relations Area FilesĪ DVISORY B OARD H. These include 3 multi-investigator groups that operate principally in the TB/HIV space, 2 extramural research units of the South African Medical Research Council and a number of other research entities, 6 Research Chairs awarded under the National Research Foundation's South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), and further areas of research foci led by individual Members.Īs a collective, the research groups include over 300 research officers and laboratory, clinical, field site and administrative support staff, 230 Masters and PhD students registered in any year, and 80 or more Postdoctoral Fellows.MELVIN EMBER, President, Human Relations Area Files CAROL R. Overall, there are more than 30 research groups. The Members may also collaborate with Affiliate or Adjunct Members.
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