My Fulbright Experience to Ethiopia, 2022-23 by Teferi Abate Adem, HRAF Research Anthropologist Conducting follow-up extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Wollo area of Ethiopia has been a deeply felt dream of mine over the last…
The Comparative Approach in Anthropology In a blog titled Where Have All the Comparisons Gone?, originally published on the website for the Society For Cultural Anthropology, Robert Borofsky from the Center For A Public Anthropology…
Why do people in some societies dress in uniform or standardized ways, whereas in other societies individuals display considerable variability in dress? Tentative answers to this question will appear as an article titled “Uniformity in…
HRAF Global Scholar: Eric Nana Osei-Akoto Title: PhD candidate University Affiliation: Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture Research Topic: Spirituality and Healthcare: An examination of the practice and use of Traditional Herbal Medicine by…
Final exam week has begun for the Fall 2021 semester at the University of Connecticut, which has access to the eHRAF World Cultures database. HRAF’s member services manager Matthew Longcore, who is also an adjunct…
HRAF Global Scholar: Monir Birouk Title: Faculty Member University Affiliation: Ibn Zohr University Research Topic: Amazigh tradition in Morocco Monir Birouk is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the Department of…
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University recently became a partner in the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS), an organization focused on funding collaborative working groups in archaeology and related fields. The Coalition…
A new topical summary on Marriage and Family is now available in Explaining Human Culture, our open access database that summarizes the results of over 1,000 cross-cultural studies. This EHC summary is co-authored by HRAF President Carol R.…
HRAF Global Scholar: Dr. Loreen Maseno, PhD Title: Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion, Theology and Philosophy University Affiliation: Maseno University, Kenya Research Topic: Food in African Spirituality Loreen Maseno received her PhD from the University of…
Is romantic kissing a cultural universal? According to cross-cultural researchers, the answer, definitively, is no. While western societies often take for granted the notion that romantic partners express their desire for one another through kissing,…