World Cultures
World Cultures is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal of cross-cultural studies. It was founded in 1985 by Douglas R. White, who served as the editor-in-chief until 1990. Subsequently, Greg Truex assumed this role in 1991, followed by J. Patrick Gray, who held the position from 1992 to 2014. Greg Truex returned as editor-in-chief in 2015 and continued in this capacity until 2016. William Divale was the publisher until 2008 when the journal transitioned from a print and CD-ROM format to an online format. The journal is hosted as an eScholarship journal, primarily dedicated to publishing cross-cultural research articles, computerized codebooks, and datasets. These resources encompass a wide range of subjects, including the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, Western North American Indians, an Atlas of Archaeology, the Ethnographic Atlas (compiled by Murdock in 1967), and Lewis Binford's work titled "Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets" (published in 2001), among numerous other topics. Additionally, the journal has also published various software programs designed for cross-cultural analysis. Background Part of the purpose of the journal is to provide codebooks and data that are in the public domain for scientific use, at minimal cost of