Quick Start Guide for eHRAF World Cultures
We hope you are enjoying our new eHRAF World Cultures (beta) experience. To learn how to access the beta application, see this page. As a reminder, we will be officially launching the new design in…
Author Archives: Francine Barone
Featured HRAF Global Scholar: Ouattara Seydou
HRAF Global Scholar: Ouattara Seydou Title: PhD Candidate in Sociology, Socioeconomics, Governance, and Development University Affiliation: Alassane Ouattara University, Côte d’Ivoire Research Topic: The Ivorian school: challenges and perspectives for a successful education system Ouattara…
Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay
Ian Skoggard, HRAF Research Anthropologist, has written the forward to an exciting new publication by Stephen Kidd, Senior Social Policy Specialist at Development Pathways. In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social…
HRAF x UConn Anthropology Day 2021 Recap
We are pleased to report another successful Anthropology Day at HRAF. Staff members from the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University and anthropology students from the University of Connecticut met on Friday, February 19…
HRAF Spring 2021 Conference Attendance Recap
HRAF was pleased to attend several conferences and events this Spring, beginning with our own Anthropology Day virtual festivities at the end of February, which featured the UConn Stamford Anthropology Society, eHRAF projects from UConn…
HRAF Global Scholars 2021
HRAF is pleased to announce the recipients of the HRAF Global Scholars Program for 2021. This program provides scholars around the world with one year of complimentary access to our research databases, eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF…
Featured eHRAF Culture: Trobriands
The Trobriands, a Melanesian people who live primarily on four islands in Milne Bay Province, northeastern Papua New Guinea, are one of the over 300 cultures covered in the eHRAF World Cultures ethnographic database. Fifty-seven documents…
Introducing iKLEWS team members
By Francine Barone HRAF is pleased to welcome two new team members, Sridhar Reddy Ravula and Aishwarya Kumar, who have joined us for our NSF-supported iKLEWS project. Sridhar, our development team leader, recently completed his…
HRAF-UConn Virtual Anthropology Day Celebration 2021
The Human Relations Area Files at Yale University will host our second annual Anthropology Day event in collaboration with the UConn Stamford Anthropology Society. This year we will have a virtual event via Zoom. HRAF…
eHRAF World Cultures Celebrates 25 Years Online
By Francine Barone It has been 25 years since the application known today as the eHRAF World Cultures database made its debut on the World Wide Web. The first online version of the eHRAF Collection…