societies: Societies in the WNAI dataset.

In mnacamura/wnai: Western North American Indian Dataset

Description

Societies in the WNAI dataset.

Usage

wnai::societies

Format

A data frame with 172 societies (rows) and 6 variables (columns):

id

D-PLACE-wide id for the society

name

name of the society

alt_names

alternative names of the society (comma separated)

glottocode

code of the most specific Glottolog languoid for the society

latitude

location of the society in latitude

longitude

location of the society in longitude

Source

Jorgensen, J. G. (1980) Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages and Cultures of 172 Western American Indian Tribes. W. H. Freeman.

Jorgensen, J. G. (1999) Codebook for Western Indians data. World Cultures 10(2): 144-293.

The dataset in D-PLACE is imported from World Cultures CD-ROM (2011) using codes described in Jorgensen (1999).

mnacamura/wnai documentation built on July 9, 2020, 11:22 p.m.