HRAF 2017 in Review & 2018 Preview
The New Year is underway, which means it’s time for our annual news and notes review. This post will summarize our highlights from the previous year as well as what you can expect to see…
Category Archives: eHRAF Highlights
Human Sociality and Cooperative Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Approach
This week, we have a guest contributor to eHRAF Highlights: HRAF Research Anthropologist Ian Skoggard, who shares some thoughts and findings on human cooperation. Cooperation has deep evolutionary roots. Bees do it, ants do it,…
HRAF Research report: Do natural hazards increase cultural “tightness”?
HRAF President, Carol Ember, has contributed this post reporting on her ongoing research into natural hazards and cultural “tightness”. Some societies appear to have strong and clearly defined expectations for how to behave in many…
Get ready for the fall semester with eHRAF video tutorials
It’s that time of year again when the fall semester is just around the corner. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with a few ways that you can get classroom- and research-ready with HRAF.…
Burning questions: evidence for off-site fire use by hunter-gatherers in eHRAF Archaeology
An insightful publication by Fulco Scherjon, Corrie Bakels, Katharine MacDonald, and Wil Roebroeks in the June 2015 issue of Current Anthropology sheds new light on present-day and historical fire setting practices among hunter-gatherers and foragers.…
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Fieldnotes: Traditional Basarwa (San) dancing in Botswana [Video]
HRAF anthropologist Ian Skoggard visited Botswana last year. In this post, he shares his experiences along with some video footage from his trip. Last September 2016, my wife and I had the privilege to visit…
Announcement: eHRAF Scheduled Maintenance for Saturday, July 1, 2017
eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on the morning of Saturday, July 1, 2017. Users can expect to experience a temporary interruption of service beginning at approximately 7:00am EST due…
Culture Quiz: Do you know the ethnonyms for Blackfoot?
Which of the following is NOT one of applied names (ethnonyms) for the Blackfoot nation? a) Blood b) Kainai c) Bungi d) Pikunii e) Siksika In eHRAF World Cultures you can find the answer. …
Live webinars for eHRAF databases
In our live webinars, you can learn more about the eHRAF databases, including how cultures and traditions are organized by regions, sub-regions, samples, and subsistence types. First developed in the 1930s by George Peter Murdock,…
2017 HRAF Internship in Honor of Melvin Ember
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…