A new topical summary on Residence and Kinship is now available in Explaining Human Culture, our open access database that summarizes the results of over 1,100 cross-cultural studies. This EHC summary is co-authored by HRAF President…
“AI” has come to represent multiple causal drivers of change: amongst them artificial intelligence itself, space exploration, bio-tech and other emerging technologies. The implications for human society could hardly be more significant, and feed into…
Submissions are now open for the 2022 Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) Carol R. Ember Book Prize. This prize recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of SAS…
The HRAF research team announces a new publication based on data from their NSF-supported project investigating how natural hazards may have transformed culture. This paper, “Local Knowledge and Practice in Disaster Relief: A Worldwide Cross-Cultural…
Students on University College Dublin‘s exciting new MSc/GradDip in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology benefit from access to HRAF’s cross-cultural eHRAF World Cultures & eHRAF Archaeology databases, which enable searching ethnographic and archaeological data across a worldwide sample…
HRAF Global Scholar: Dr. Dagnachew Adefris Gebrehiwot Title: Assistant Professor in English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, College of Social Sciences and Humanities University Affiliation: Woldia University, Ethiopia Research Topic: Environmental politics and…
HRAF Research Anthropologist Ian Skoggard attended the SAA 82nd Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah in March 2022. Continue reading for Ian’s report on the event and its highlights. The 82nd annual meeting of…
Comprehensive Modeling of Cultural Transformations in Response to Shocks and Hazards Associated with Climate The Human Relations Area Files, a research agency at Yale University, is seeking two full-time (or possibly up to four part-time)…
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is pleased to announce a one-year internship in honor of Melvin Ember. Melvin Ember was President of HRAF from 1987 until his death in 2009. The…
HRAF President Carol Ember attended the 50th anniversary annual meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR), which took place from February 16-19 in San Diego, California. SCCR is a multi-disciplinary organization, whose members share…