HRAF Global Scholar: Getnet Tibebu Alemayehu Title: PhD Candidate, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature University Affiliation: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Research Topic: Resistance and Representations in African Anglophone Novels: Language politics, magical realism and…
Anthropology Day is a day for anthropologists to celebrate our discipline while sharing it with the world around us. This year, World Anthropology Day will take place on Thursday, February 20, 2020. The Human Relations…
A few years ago, HRAF posted a story titled Burning questions: evidence for off-site fire use by hunter-gatherers in eHRAF Archaeology, which was written in follow up to the publication of a journal article Burning…
After the great success of the HRAF Global Scholarship competition that we first launched in 2018, we were delighted to continue the program for 2019. For 2019 the scholarship was opened to both individuals and…
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC). The partnership with SACC is part of the HRAF Community College…
A popular annual request from our members is for information about how we are growing our culture collections in our eHRAF databases. Below is a brief summary of what cultures and traditions we have added…
Does vocal music, or song, exist across all known human cultures? What behaviors are commonly associated with it? Do the musical features of a song predict the behavioral context in which it is performed? Samuel…
Are you attending the joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) in Vancouver, BC, from November 20-24 2019? HRAF looks forward to seeing you there! President Carol R. Ember…
This is the third post in our COVID-19 response series. The first post presented an overview of eHRAF products as well as information about membership and extensions to our free trials. The second post featured…
Editor’s note: The following post contains contributions from Bernadette Bucher, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Fordham University. The early history of the Human Relations Area Files from 1949 in North America is public…