Tiv and the Use of Milk in their Diet
This image shows an Advanced Search in eHRAF World Cultures for the topic “Tiv and the use of milk in their diet.” Steps in Using an eHRAF Advanced Search Step 1. Find the culture name Click Add…
Author Archives: Christiane Cunnar
A Cross-Cultural Search for Shamanism
In eHRAF’s Advanced Search the “Add Subjects” function can be used to pick “shamanism” as OCM subject. This and other OCM subjects can be used to search across all cultures and to find paragraphs and pages of ethnographic texts with…
People and Agriculture: eHRAF World Cultures
The article titled “A Forgotten Group Of Grains Might Help Indian Farmers – And Improve Diets, Too,”published by National Public Radio (NPR) on 9 February 2017, talks about how millet once used to be India’s main staple,…
Maasai and Ear Piercing and Other Body Modifications
In eHRAF’s Advanced Search the “Add Subjects” function can be used to pick “body modification” as OCM subject. This and other OCM subjects can be used to search across all cultures, or a specific culture (e.g. the Masai) to find paragraphs…
HRAF at Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Meeting in Austin, TX
Attending this week’s SAA in Austin, Texas? If so, be sure to stop by our HRAF booth to learn more about the online eHRAF databases – eHRAF World Cultures and Archaeology. My colleagues Leon Doyon…
Internship for IT Development Support for Online Cross-Cultural Resources
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is seeking an intern to assist in the production and further development of its two web applications to support research and teaching, eHRAF World Cultures and…
Reindeer for Milk Production
Here are the steps in eHRAF World Cultures to search for the use of reindeer for milk production. For this search it’s best to use the “Add Subjects” function and keywords in an Advanced Search. Steps…
Cooperative Labor in Farming: Comparing Eastern to Western Societies
The eHRAF World Cultures is a great resource when it comes to comparing Eastern to Western cultures on topics such as cooperative labor in agriculture and farming….after all, it’s a cross-cultural database that automatically searches across major regions…
Tibetan Medical Treatments
Whether wounds, snake bites, or fractures are treated, or surgeries are being performed, in eHRAF’s Advanced Search the “Add Subjects” can be used to pick “sickness” or other medical related subjects. The subjects allow you…
Document Collections in eHRAF
Think of the eHRAF databases as online “collections” of texts on past and present cultures from major regions around the world that are subject indexed. Once HRAF decides on a contemporary or prehistoric culture, chosen…