Christiane Cunnar, Member Services, at the HRAF booth. Attending this week’s Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting in Orlando, Florida? In addition to the meetings, talks, and poster sessions, I hope you find time to stop…
Is kissing a universal human trait? William Jankowiak, Shelly Volsche and Justin Garcia address this question in their recently published article in American Anthropologist. The authors used Human Relations Area Files’ online ethnographic database, eHRAF World Cultures,…
The Pashtun inhabit southern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Their language is Pushto (Pashto), in the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Except for a small minority, they are Sunni Muslims. Until recently,…
Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving on behalf of the HRAF staff! As you may know, our online cross-cultural database, eHRAF World Cultures, contains mostly ethnographic descriptions. However, eHRAF also contains some cooking recipes for…
Attending this week’s American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting in Denver, Colorado? In addition to the meetings, talks, and poster sessions, I hope you find time to stop by our booth to find out about the…
Earlier this month (September 7-11, 2015), the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS XI) convened in Vienna, Austria. The conference was a joint effort of four major anthropological institutions in Vienna: the World…
The recent NPR article titled “Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don’t Have Back Pain,” is a good example of how HRAF’s cross-cultural databases, with information on traditional lifeways, can facilitate research of modern-day problems. However,…
In the eHRAF World Cultures and Archaeology databases you’ll find collected ethnographic and archaeological texts, subject indexed at the page and paragraph-level. The 3-digit subjects, also called OCMs, are based on the Outline of Cultural…
It’s HRAF’s first time at a SUNYLA Conference and I am very excited to be here to meet with you in the next couple of days. You’ll find me at the vendor’s area where I’ll…
Assiniboine belongs to which of the following language family? a) Algonquian b) Athapaskan c) Uto-Aztecan d) Siouan e) Aleut