New eHRAF World Cultures application online
On February 1, 2008, HRAF began hosting its own application, re-titled eHRAF World Cultures.
On February 1, 2008, HRAF began hosting its own application, re-titled eHRAF World Cultures.
The first online version of the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography was available in 1997 and was hosted by the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan.
In the 1980s, HRAF began developing an electronic publishing program with the intention of distributing the Collection of Ethnography exclusively through electronic means. In 1989, HRAF’s Cross-Cultural CDs provided researchers with ten topics including old…
The first installment of the full-text HRAF Collection of Ethnography on CD-ROM (eHRAF) was available to members in April 1995. The CDs were produced for 7 years.
From 1949 to 1958, the HRAF Collection of Ethnography was produced and distributed as paper files: source materials were manually reproduced on 5″ x 8″ paper slips called File pages, and then indexed by subject…
Wider distribution of the HRAF Collection of Ethnography was facilitated in 1958 with the development of the HRAF Microfiche Files.
In 1935, a small group of researchers at the interdisciplinary Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, under the direction of the Institute’s Director, Mark A. May, and Professor George Peter Murdock, began to design a…
eHRAF Archaeology became HRAF’s second electronic database. It has been building solely in electronic format since 1999. Expanding annually, this database covers major archaeological traditions and many more sub-traditions and sites around the world. Learn…
The Human Relations Area Files homepage was re-launched with a fresh new look and design. The new URL, hraf.yale.edu, is now home to the eHRAF Highlights anthropology blog, user guides, teaching exercises and pages of…
The HRAF Collection of Ethnography was originally distributed as paper files. From the early 1960s until 1994, most members received their annual installments on microfiche.