Introduction: The Continuing Legacy of Melvin Ember (1933-2009)

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1972). The conditions favoring multilocal residence. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 28, 382-400. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization , by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1979). Psychosexual predictors of the gender of objective nouns in French: An exploratory study. Ethos,7, 51-67.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1984). The evolution of human female sexuality: A cross-species perspective. Journal of Anthropological Research, 40, 202-210.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1992). Resource unpredictability, mistrust, and war: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 36, 242-262.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1993). Issues in cross-cultural studies of interpersonal violence . Violence and Victims, 8, 217-233. (Reprinted in Interpersonal violent behaviors: Social and cultural aspects, pp. 25-42, by R. Barry Ruback & N. A. Weiner , Eds., 1995, New York: Springer)

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1994). War, socialization, and interpersonal violence: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 38, 620-646.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1997). Violence in the ethnographic record: Results of cross-cultural research on war and aggression. In D. Martin & D. Frayer (Eds.), Troubled Times: Osteological and archaeological evidence of violence ( War and Society Series, Vol. 6, pp. 1-20). Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1998). Cross-cultural research. In H. R. Bernard (Ed.), Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology (pp. 647-687). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 2000). High CV score: Regular rhythm or sonority? American Anthropologist, 102, 848-851.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 2001). Cross-cultural research methods. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 2007). Climate, econiche, and sexuality: Influences on sonority in language. American Anthropologist, 109, 180-185.

Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 2009). Cross-cultural research methods (2nd ed.). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira .

Ember, C.R. , Ember, M. , Korotayev, A. , & de Munck, V. ( 2005). Valuing thinness or fatness in women: Re-evaluating the effect of resource scarcity. Evolution and Human Behavior , 26, 257-270.

Ember, C.R. , Ember, M. , & Pasternak, B. ( 1974). On the development of unilineal descent. Journal of Anthropological Research, 30, 69-94. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization , by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, C.R. , Ember, M. , & Russett, B. ( 1992). Peace between participatory polities: A cross-cultural test of the "democracies rarely fight each other" hypothesis. World Politics, 44, 573-599.

Ember, M. ( 1959). The nonunilinear descent groups of Samoa. American Anthropologist,61, 573-577. (Reprinted in Polynesia: Readings on a culture area, pp. 78-83, by A. Howard, Ed., 1971, Scranton, PA: Chandler)

Ember, M. ( 1962a). The nature of Samoan kinship structure. Man, 62, 124.

Ember, M. ( 1962b). Political authority and the structure of kinship in aboriginal Samoa. American Anthropologist, 64, 964-971. (Reprinted in Polynesia: Readings on a culture area, pp. 84-92, by A. Howard, Ed., 1971, Scranton, PA: Chandler)

Ember, M. ( 1963). The relationship between economic and political development in nonindustrialized societies. Ethnology, 2, 228-248.

Ember, M. ( 1964a). Commercialization and political change in American Samoa . In W. H. Goodenough (Ed.), Explorations in cultural anthropology: Essays in honor of George Peter Murdock (pp. 95-110). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Ember, M. ( 1964b). Reply to Freeman: A rejoinder. American Anthropologist, 66, 620-622.

Ember, M. ( 1966). Samoan kinship and political structure: An archaeological test to decide between the two alternative reconstructions (Ember’s vs. Freeman’s). American Anthropologist, 68, 163-168.

Ember, M. ( 1967). The emergence of neolocal residence. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 30, 291-302. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization, by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. ( 1973). An archaelogical indicator of matrilocal versus patrilocal residence. American Antiquity, 38, 177-182. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization, by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. ( 1974a). The conditions that may favor avunculocal residence . Behavior Science Research, 9, 203-209. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization, by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. ( 1974b). Warfare, sex-ratio, and polygyny. Ethnology , 13, 197-206. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization, by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. ( 1975). On the origin and extension of the incest taboo. Behavior Science Research, 10, 249-281. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization , by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. ( 1978). Size of color lexicon: Interaction of cultural and biological factors. American Anthropologist, 80, 364-367.

Ember, M. ( 1982). Statistical evidence for an ecological explanation of warfare. American Anthropologist, 84, 645-649.

Ember, M. ( 1985). Evidence and science in ethnography: Reflections on the Freeman-Mead controversy. American Anthropologist, 87, 906-910.

Ember, M. ( 1991). The logic of comparative research. Behavior Science Research, 25, 143-153.

Ember, M. , & Ember, C.R. ( 1971). The conditions favoring matrilocal versus patrilocal residence. American Anthropologist, 73, 571-594. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization, by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. , & Ember, C.R. ( 1979). Male-female bonding: A cross-species study of mammals and birds. Behavior Science Research, 14, 37-56. (Reprinted in Marriage, family, and kinship: Comparative studies of social organization, by M. Ember & C.R. Ember , 1983, New Haven, CT: HRAF)

Ember, M. , & Ember, C.R. ( 1995). Cross-cultural studies and their relevance for archaeology . Journal of Archaeological Research, 3, 87-111.

Ember, M. , & Ember, C.R. ( 1999). Cross-language predictors of consonant-vowel syllables . American Anthropologist, 101, 730-742.

Ember, M. , & Ember, C.R. ( 2001a). Myths about preindustrial war: Possible lessons for peace from worldwide cross-cultural research. In J. M. Ramirez & D. S. Richardson (Eds.), Cross-cultural approaches to aggression and reconciliation (pp. 149-166). Huntington, NY: NovaScience.

Ember, M. , & Ember, C.R. ( 2001b). Making the world more peaceful: Policy implications of cross-cultural research. In M. Martinez (Ed.), Prevention and control of aggression and the impact on its victims (pp. 331-338). New York: Kluwer / Plenum.

Peregrine, P.N. , Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 2003). Cross-cultural evaluation of predicted associations between race and behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 357-364.

Russett, B. , Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1993). The democratic peace in nonindustrial societies. In B. Russett (with W. Antholis , C. R. Ember , M. Ember , & Z. Maoz , Eds.), Grasping the democratic peace: Principles for a post-cold war world (pp. 99-118). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Segall, M.H. , Ember, C.R. , & Ember, M. ( 1997). Aggression, crime, and warfare. In J. W. Berry , M. H. Segall , & C. Kagitcibasi (Eds.), Handbook of cross-cultural psychology, Vol. 3: Social behavior and applications (2nd ed., pp. 213-254). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.