From Conception Through Birth: Origins of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research

Abstract

This article describes the origins and founding of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research 25 years ago. The idea for the Society was conceived by a group of anthropologists at the 1971 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. The Society itself, however, was founded on February 19, 1972 by a multidisciplinary group of scholars from throughout the United States and Canada.