View Online: Interactive Slideshow Group Project Instructions | Essay Instructions Download: Note to Instructors | Text Syllabus | Syllabus Slideshow Group Project Instructions | Essay Instructions Dr. Francine Barone | francine.barone@yale.edu Human Relations Area Files…
These eHRAF exercises are designed to accompany the Module Religion in Explaining Human Culture. This module summarizes what cross-cultural research tells us about predictors and possible explanations of religious variation. The first set of exercises…
The Outline of Archaeological Traditions (OAT), compiled by Peter Peregrine with the help of a Board of Advisors, is the sampling frame for eHRAF Archaeology. Only some of these traditions are currently included in eHRAF…
HRAF’s Sponsoring Members & Their Representatives Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona – Matthew Peeples California State University, Fullerton, California – Elizabeth Pillsworth University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado – J. Terrence McCabe University of Florida, Gainesville,…
The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS) consists of 186 anthropologically described societies chosen by the sample’s creators, Murdock and White (1969). The sample tried to minimize cultural relatedness, so only one society was chosen from a…
Francine Barone This summary features some of the exciting research accomplished using HRAF data from the eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology databases as well as Explaining Human Culture (EHC), Teaching eHRAF, and other open…
The PSF is a subset of eHRAF World Cultures and a special kind of random sample called a stratified random sample. For the PSF sample the world was divided into 60 culture areas (strata) and one case…
If the number of cute animal memes on the internet is a fair benchmark, then the human love of pets is a powerful and global phenomenon. For many pet owners, their furry (or scaly) domestic…
As we reflect on 2023 and look forward to a new year, HRAF would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to our newest member institutions. We are especially pleased by the diversity and global reach…
In the eHRAF World Cultures database the cultures and ethnic groups included are organized by regions (e.g. North America), subregions (e.g. Southwest) and subsistence types (e.g. hunter-gatherers). Every year 20-30 cultures with approximately 40,000 pages…