World Cultures welcomes articles, data, and comparative research material, dealing with any aspect of human groups, from social scientists of any country. Publication of any comparative database, regional or worldwide, will be considered on the basis of scope and quality. Submissions of programs and teaching materials are welcomed and will be considered from the viewpoint of the evolving skills of the general readership. Brief communications on research, coding, sources, and other materials of interest to comparative researchers are welcomed. Codes, articles, or other materials should be submitted in printed form or on diskettes, preferably in WordPerfect format.
Authors are free to republish material in other journals.
The World Cultures journal is protected by both United States Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions. The accompanying CD contains a complete version of the Ethnographic Atlas data set updated with the codes introduced in this issue. Dr. Caulkins will contribute a paper on Scottish identity to our next issue. The next issue will also carry a new article by Dr. Zeitlin accompanied with the data set used in both articles and by programs to create the bull s eye diagrams in this paper. Kintype.txt is organized by cultural province number and has codes from a number of societies that are not found in the Ethnographic Atlas .