William Divale
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William Tulio Divale was a professor of anthropology at York College, City University of New York in Jamaica, New York, USA. He died in 2020 at the age of 78.[1]
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Divale was a past chairman of the Social Sciences Department. He received his PhD degree from the
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 (New York: Cowles Book Co, 1970), and authored Matrilocal Residence In Pre-Literate Societies (
He has conducted fieldwork in La Gomera, Canary Islands (1973–76), and in the Republic of Moldova (Eastern Europe) (2005–Present).
Divale admitted to being a government spy and informant.[2] The known account of this is disclosed in his book I Lived Inside the Campus Revolution.
Select publications
Mylonas, K., Furnham, A., Konstantinidis, E., Papazoglou, S., Divale, W., Leblebici, C., Gondim, S., Moniz, A., Grad, H., Alvaro, J.-L., Cretu, R.-Z., Filus, A., & Boski, P. 2013. The Explanations for Unemployment Scale: An Eight-Country Study on Factor Equivalence. In Y. Kashima, E. Kashima, & R. Beatson (Eds.), Steering the cultural dynamics: Selected papers from the 2010 Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Melbourne, Australia: International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Accessed via www.iaccp.org
Rebecca Rivera-Maestre and William Divale 2011 Interdisciplinary Linkages: Joint Group Wiki Projects between Anthropology and Social Work Courses. DisCover: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, Vol 3: 9-27
William Divale, Vadim Aftene, Vadim Moldovan, Anatol Nacu 2011. Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Influence of Father-Absence on the Chronically Mentally Ill in Moldova (Eastern Europe). In, Kourkoutas, Ε. & Erkman, F. (Eds.). Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection: Social, Emotional, and Educational Contexts. Boca Raton, FL: Brown Walker Press, pps 163-172
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 & 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.
References
- ^ CUNY (23 April 2020). "Obituaries".
- ^ I lived inside the campus revolution. College Notes & Texts. January 1975.