William Divale
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William Tulio Divale is a professor of anthropology
at York College, City University of New York
in Jamaica
, New York
, USA.
Divale was a past chairman of the Social Sciences Department. He received his PhD degree from the University at Buffalo
in 1974. He is the publisher of the
World Cultures eJournal.
He has received two medals for one of his specialties, cross-cultural studies
. He was also Past President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (2000) and is the current president again (2009).
He also co-authored the book (with James Joseph) "I Lived Inside The Campus Revolution." (1970) Cowles Book Co, New York, and authored "Matrilocal Residence In Pre-Literate Societies." (1984) Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. He has also authored over 25 publications in scientific journals.
He has conducted fieldwork in La Gomera, Canary Islands (1973–76), and in the Republic of Moldova (Eastern Europe) (2005–Present).
(2008) Services for the Chronically Mentally Ill in Moldova: A Struggle to Survive. The International Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 36, No. 4. 46-56
Sonjia Kenya, Robert Fullilove, John Allegrante, William Divale, and Mitchell Brodsky
2003 Effects of Immigration on Select Risk Behaviors of Black College Students. Journal of American College Health 52(3): 113-120
Daria Khaltourina, Andrey Korotayev
& William Divale
2002 A Corrected Version of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample Database. World Cultures 13(1): 62-98
Julie Ann Kishna and William Divale
2001 Internet Survey on the Effects of Immigration and Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Intake of Guyanese. World Cultures 12(2):153-178
'Divale, William
2001 Codes on Highest Number Counted for the Standard Sample. World Cultures, 12(1):98-103
Divale, William and Albert Seda
2000 Modernization as Changes in Cultural Complexity: New Cross-Cultural Measurements. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. Vol. 34(3).
2000 Cross-Cultural Codes on Modernization. World Cultures 11(2): 152-170
Wm. Divale
1999 Climatic Instability, Food Storage, and the Development of Numerical Counting: A Cross-Cultural Study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. 33(4),341-368
Wm. Divale and Albert Seda.
1999 Codes on Gossip for Societies in the Standard Sample. World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. Vol 10(1):7-22.
Wm. Divale, Noelle Abrams, Jennifer Barzola, Estelle Harris, and Fred-Michael Henry.
1998 Sleeping Arrangements of Children and Adolescents: SCCS Sample Codes. World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. World Cultures 9, 3-12.
Wm. Divale and Stanley R. Witkowski
1996 Kin Groups, Residence, and Descent. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology.
3:673-679. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Wm. Divale
1995 Cold Symptoms and Emotional Dissatisfaction Among Rural/Urban and Culturally Diverse High School Students. Journal Of Cross-Cultural Research. 29(1):27-42.
1984 Matrilocal Residence In Pre-Literate Societies. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.
Wm. Divale and Marvin Harris
1978 The Male Supremacist Complex: Discovery of a Cultural Invention. American
Anthropologist 80(3):668-671.
Wm. Divale, Marvin Harris, and Donald T. Williams
1978 On the Mis-Use of Statistics: A Reply to Hirschfield et al. American Anthropologist 80(2):379-386.
R. Rohner, R. Naroll, H. Barry, Wm. Divale et al.
1978 Guidelines for Holocultural Research. Current Anthropology 19(1):128-129.
Wm. Divale and Marvin Harris
1978 Reply to Lancaster and Lancaster. American Anthropologist 80(1):117-118.
Wm. Divale and Clifford Zipin
1977 Hunting and the Development of Sign Language: A Cross-Cultural Test. Journal of Anthropological Research 33(2):185-201.
Wm. Divale
1977 Living Floor Area and Marital Residence: A Replication. Behavior Science Research 12:109-115.
1977 From Correlations to Causes: A New and Simple Method for Causal Analysis in Cross-Cultural Research. Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences vol.285:66-74.
Volume titled: "Issues in Cross-Cultural Research," Leonore Loeb Adler, ed.
1977 A Cross-Cultural Test of Stratification versus Alliance Theory. Current Anthropology 18:451-453.
1976 Female Status and Cultural Evolution: A Study in Ethnographer Bias. Behavior Science Research 11:169-211.
Wm. Divale and Marvin Harris
1976 Population, Warfare, and the Male Supremacist Complex. American Anthropologist
78:521-538.
Wm. Divale
1976 Newspapers: Some Guidelines for Communicating Anthropology. Human Organization
35:183-191.
Raoul Naroll
and Wm. Divale
1976 Natural Selection in Cultural Evolution: Warfare versus Peaceful Diffusion. American Ethnologist 3:97-128.
Wm. Divale, F. Chamberis, and D. Gangloff
1976 War, Peace and Marital Residence in Pre-Industrial Societies. Journal Of Conflict Resolution 20:57-78.
Wm. Divale
1976 Using Date of European Contact for Time-Lagged Variables in Cross-Cultural Surveys. Behavior Science Research 11:30-55. HRAF Cross-Cultural Research Award, 1975.
1975 An Explanation for Matrilocal Residence. In, Being Female: Reproduction, Power,
and Change. Dana Raphael, ed. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 99–108.
1975 Temporal Focus and Random Error in Cross-Cultural Hypothesis Tests.
Behavior Science Research 10:19-36
1975 The Causes Of Matrilocal Residence: A Cross-Ethnohistorical Survey. Ann Arbor:
University Microfilms, No. 75-7742. Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International
35(10):6286-6287.
1974 Migration, External Warfare, and Matrilocal Residence. Behavior Science Research 9:75-133.
1973 Warfare In Primitive Societies: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara and Oxford:
ABC-ClioPress. 2nd Revised Edition.
1973 The Cognatic-Affinal Paradox in the Egyptian Myth of Osiris: A Critical Application of the Structural Method. New York Folklore Quarterly 29:287-303.
1973 Science in the News. Saturday Review Of Literature (Sciences) 1(2):56.
1972 Systemic Population Control in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic: Inferences Based on
Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers. World Archaeology 4:222-243.
1972 Some Guidelines for Disseminating Anthropology Through Newspapers. Media
Anthropologist 1(2):1-2.
1971 Science-Writers and Science Reporting. California Anthropologist 1(2):47-60.
California State University at Los Angeles.
1971 Ibo Population Control: The Ecology of Warfare and Social Organization. California Anthropologist 1(1):10-24. California State University at Los Angeles.
1971 Warfare In Primitive Societies: A Selected Bibliography. Los Angeles: Center for
the Study of Armament and Disarmament.
1970 An Explanation for Primitive Warfare: Population Control and the Significance of Primitive Sex Ratios. New Scholar 2:172-193.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
at York College, City University of New York
York College, City University of New York
York College of The City University of New York is one of eleven senior colleges in the City University of New York system. It is located in Jamaica, Queens in New York City...
in Jamaica
Jamaica, Queens
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. It was settled under Dutch rule in 1656 in New Netherland as Rustdorp. Under British rule, the Village of Jamaica became the center of the "Town of Jamaica"...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, USA.
Divale was a past chairman of the Social Sciences Department. He received his PhD degree from the University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore in 1846. UB has multiple campuses...
in 1974. He is the publisher of the
World Cultures eJournal.
He has received two medals for one of his specialties, cross-cultural studies
Cross-cultural studies
Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called Holocultural Studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences that uses field data from many societies to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture. Cross-cultural studies is the third form of...
. He was also Past President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (2000) and is the current president again (2009).
He also co-authored the book (with James Joseph) "I Lived Inside The Campus Revolution." (1970) Cowles Book Co, New York, and authored "Matrilocal Residence In Pre-Literate Societies." (1984) Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. He has also authored over 25 publications in scientific journals.
He has conducted fieldwork in La Gomera, Canary Islands (1973–76), and in the Republic of Moldova (Eastern Europe) (2005–Present).
Select publications
Vadim Moldovan, Ph.D., William Divale, Ph.D., Constantin Turcan, M.D., Anatol Carpa, M.D., Anatol Nacu, PhD./M.D., Alexander Socrovisciuc, M.D., Vladimir Sterpu, M.D./Ph.D., Virginia Fauras, M.D., Vadim Aftene, M.D., Daniel Paladiciuc, M.D., Ludmila Petrova, M.D., Maria Victoria Cardona-Divale, M.A., E. Ed.(2008) Services for the Chronically Mentally Ill in Moldova: A Struggle to Survive. The International Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 36, No. 4. 46-56
Sonjia Kenya, Robert Fullilove, John Allegrante, William Divale, and Mitchell Brodsky
2003 Effects of Immigration on Select Risk Behaviors of Black College Students. Journal of American College Health 52(3): 113-120
Daria Khaltourina, Andrey Korotayev
Andrey Korotayev
Andrey Korotayev is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics.Education and career=Born in Moscow, Andrey Korotayev attended...
& William Divale
2002 A Corrected Version of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample Database. World Cultures 13(1): 62-98
Julie Ann Kishna and William Divale
2001 Internet Survey on the Effects of Immigration and Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Intake of Guyanese. World Cultures 12(2):153-178
'Divale, William
2001 Codes on Highest Number Counted for the Standard Sample. World Cultures, 12(1):98-103
Divale, William and Albert Seda
2000 Modernization as Changes in Cultural Complexity: New Cross-Cultural Measurements. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. Vol. 34(3).
2000 Cross-Cultural Codes on Modernization. World Cultures 11(2): 152-170
Wm. Divale
1999 Climatic Instability, Food Storage, and the Development of Numerical Counting: A Cross-Cultural Study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. 33(4),341-368
Wm. Divale and Albert Seda.
1999 Codes on Gossip for Societies in the Standard Sample. World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. Vol 10(1):7-22.
Wm. Divale, Noelle Abrams, Jennifer Barzola, Estelle Harris, and Fred-Michael Henry.
1998 Sleeping Arrangements of Children and Adolescents: SCCS Sample Codes. World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. World Cultures 9, 3-12.
Wm. Divale and Stanley R. Witkowski
1996 Kin Groups, Residence, and Descent. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology.
3:673-679. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Wm. Divale
1995 Cold Symptoms and Emotional Dissatisfaction Among Rural/Urban and Culturally Diverse High School Students. Journal Of Cross-Cultural Research. 29(1):27-42.
1984 Matrilocal Residence In Pre-Literate Societies. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.
Wm. Divale and Marvin Harris
Marvin Harris
Marvin Harris was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism...
1978 The Male Supremacist Complex: Discovery of a Cultural Invention. American
Anthropologist 80(3):668-671.
Wm. Divale, Marvin Harris, and Donald T. Williams
1978 On the Mis-Use of Statistics: A Reply to Hirschfield et al. American Anthropologist 80(2):379-386.
R. Rohner, R. Naroll, H. Barry, Wm. Divale et al.
1978 Guidelines for Holocultural Research. Current Anthropology 19(1):128-129.
Wm. Divale and Marvin Harris
1978 Reply to Lancaster and Lancaster. American Anthropologist 80(1):117-118.
Wm. Divale and Clifford Zipin
1977 Hunting and the Development of Sign Language: A Cross-Cultural Test. Journal of Anthropological Research 33(2):185-201.
Wm. Divale
1977 Living Floor Area and Marital Residence: A Replication. Behavior Science Research 12:109-115.
1977 From Correlations to Causes: A New and Simple Method for Causal Analysis in Cross-Cultural Research. Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences vol.285:66-74.
Volume titled: "Issues in Cross-Cultural Research," Leonore Loeb Adler, ed.
1977 A Cross-Cultural Test of Stratification versus Alliance Theory. Current Anthropology 18:451-453.
1976 Female Status and Cultural Evolution: A Study in Ethnographer Bias. Behavior Science Research 11:169-211.
Wm. Divale and Marvin Harris
1976 Population, Warfare, and the Male Supremacist Complex. American Anthropologist
78:521-538.
Wm. Divale
1976 Newspapers: Some Guidelines for Communicating Anthropology. Human Organization
35:183-191.
Raoul Naroll
Raoul Naroll
Raoul Naroll was an anthropologist who did much to promote the methodology of cross-cultural studies. He was born in Toronto, Ontario but was raised in Los Angeles and attended UCLA at the age of 16, dropping out in his junior year. Naroll returned to his studies in anthropology and history in...
and Wm. Divale
1976 Natural Selection in Cultural Evolution: Warfare versus Peaceful Diffusion. American Ethnologist 3:97-128.
Wm. Divale, F. Chamberis, and D. Gangloff
1976 War, Peace and Marital Residence in Pre-Industrial Societies. Journal Of Conflict Resolution 20:57-78.
Wm. Divale
1976 Using Date of European Contact for Time-Lagged Variables in Cross-Cultural Surveys. Behavior Science Research 11:30-55. HRAF Cross-Cultural Research Award, 1975.
1975 An Explanation for Matrilocal Residence. In, Being Female: Reproduction, Power,
and Change. Dana Raphael, ed. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 99–108.
1975 Temporal Focus and Random Error in Cross-Cultural Hypothesis Tests.
Behavior Science Research 10:19-36
1975 The Causes Of Matrilocal Residence: A Cross-Ethnohistorical Survey. Ann Arbor:
University Microfilms, No. 75-7742. Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International
35(10):6286-6287.
1974 Migration, External Warfare, and Matrilocal Residence. Behavior Science Research 9:75-133.
1973 Warfare In Primitive Societies: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara and Oxford:
ABC-ClioPress. 2nd Revised Edition.
1973 The Cognatic-Affinal Paradox in the Egyptian Myth of Osiris: A Critical Application of the Structural Method. New York Folklore Quarterly 29:287-303.
1973 Science in the News. Saturday Review Of Literature (Sciences) 1(2):56.
1972 Systemic Population Control in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic: Inferences Based on
Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers. World Archaeology 4:222-243.
1972 Some Guidelines for Disseminating Anthropology Through Newspapers. Media
Anthropologist 1(2):1-2.
1971 Science-Writers and Science Reporting. California Anthropologist 1(2):47-60.
California State University at Los Angeles.
1971 Ibo Population Control: The Ecology of Warfare and Social Organization. California Anthropologist 1(1):10-24. California State University at Los Angeles.
1971 Warfare In Primitive Societies: A Selected Bibliography. Los Angeles: Center for
the Study of Armament and Disarmament.
1970 An Explanation for Primitive Warfare: Population Control and the Significance of Primitive Sex Ratios. New Scholar 2:172-193.