Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving on behalf of the HRAF staff! As you may know, our online cross-cultural database, eHRAF World Cultures, contains mostly ethnographic descriptions. However, eHRAF also contains some cooking recipes for…
Attending this week’s American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting in Denver, Colorado? In addition to the meetings, talks, and poster sessions, I hope you find time to stop by our booth to find out about the…
Earlier this month (September 7-11, 2015), the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS XI) convened in Vienna, Austria. The conference was a joint effort of four major anthropological institutions in Vienna: the World…
The recent NPR article titled “Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don’t Have Back Pain,” is a good example of how HRAF’s cross-cultural databases, with information on traditional lifeways, can facilitate research of modern-day problems. However,…
It’s HRAF’s first time at a SUNYLA Conference and I am very excited to be here to meet with you in the next couple of days. You’ll find me at the vendor’s area where I’ll…
Assiniboine belongs to which of the following language family? a) Algonquian b) Athapaskan c) Uto-Aztecan d) Siouan e) Aleut
If you are attending the SAA meeting in San Francisco I’d like to invite you to stop by our HRAF booth to learn more about the recent changes that our development team has made to…
The Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 11) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from September 7-11, 2015. The call for papers is open until February 20, 2015. Please see further details…
A total lunar eclipse or “blood moon” – named for its dramatic red color – will be visible in most of North America, South America, Asia and parts of Australia around 5:00am on April 4,…
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is pleased to announce a one-year internship in Melvin Ember’s name. Melvin Ember was President of HRAF from 1987 until his death in 2009. The intent…