Editing George Murdock (section)

==Major works==
In 1954, Murdock published a list of every known culture, the ''Outline of World Cultures''. In 1957, he published his first cross-cultural data set, the ''World Ethnographic Sample'', consisting of 565 cultures coded for 30 variables. In 1959, despite having no professional experience in Africa, Murdock published ''Africa: Its peoples and their culture history'', a reference book on African ethnic groups heavily reliant on colonial sources that attributed African innovations to diffusion from cultures outside Africa. There is also a list of his other major works:
* ''Correlations of Matrilineal and Patrilineal Institutions.'' // G. P. Murdock (ed.) Studies in the Science of Society, New Haven: Yale, 1937.
* ''Social Structure.'' New York: The MacMillan Company. 1949.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gross |first=Llewellyn |date=1950 |title=Review of Social Structure. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2772108 |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=55 |issue=5 |pages=498–500 |issn=0002-9602}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Davis |first=Kingsley |date=1950 |title=Review of Social Structure. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2086412 |journal=American Sociological Review |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=138–140 |doi=10.2307/2086412 |issn=0003-1224|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''Ethnographic Atlas: A Summary.'' Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press. 1967.
* ''Standard Cross-Cultural Sample'' // Ethnology 8 (4): 329–369. 1969.
* ''Atlas of World Cultures.'' Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press. 1981.