also developed Ralph Linton's Status/Role theory, also applying a structural componential analysis. Selected publications 1951. Property, Kin and Community on Truk. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 46. 1955. "A Problem in Malayo-Polynesian Social Organization." American Anthropologist 57:71-83. 1956. "Residence Rules." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 12:22-37. 1956. "Componential Analysis and the Study of Meaning." Language 32(1):195-216. 1957. "Oceana and the Problem of Controls in the Study of Cultural and Human Evolution." Journal of the Polynesian Society 66:146-155. 1957. "Cultural anthropology and linguistics". In: Garvin, Paul L. (Hg.): Report of the Seventh Annual Round table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Study. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics No. 9. P. 167–173 1964. (Editor) Explorations in Cultural Anthropology: Essays in Honor of George Peter Murdock. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1965. "Yankee Kinship Terminology: A Problem in Componential Analysis." In E.A. Hammel, ed., Formal Semantic Analysis, pp259–297. Special Publication, American Anthropologist, vol. 67, no. 5, pt. 2. 1963. Cooperation in Change: An Anthropological Approach to Community Development. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1970. Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology. Chicago: Aldine. 1971. Culture Language and Society. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Modular Publications, No. 7. 2002. Under Heaven’s Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 246. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. References External links Patrick V. Kirch, "Ward H. Goodenough", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 1919 births 2013 deaths Cornell University alumni American anthropologists Anthropologists of religion Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Presidents of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science American Anthropologist editors Members of the American Philosophical Society