The presence of male bias in ethnographic reporting and in the selec
tion of sources which go into the HRAF Files is investigated here. Female
ethnographers are represented in a greater proportion in the HRAF Files
than they are in the anthropological literature as a whole; and males and
females cover essentially the same topics in general ethnographies. The
latter result could be interpreted to mean either the presence or the absence
of male bias and points to a need for further research.
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