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. …
Category Archives: eHRAF Highlights
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…
Songs Across Cultures
Do songs share certain forms across the world? If you hear a song sung in an unfamiliar language, in a rhythm you’ve never heard before, can you still understand what it means? In a cross-cultural…
A cross-cultural look at posture in eHRAF
A recent article from NPR, Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don’t Have Back Pain, prompted us to see what we could uncover in eHRAF World Cultures that would shed more light on indigenous approaches to…
HRAF at Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference in Vancouver, B.C. (29 Mar-2 Apr 2017)
Dear Archaeology Faculty, If you are attending the 2017 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference in Vancouver, B.C., please join me at the HRAF booth #225 for a tour of HRAF’s award-winning online cross-cultural databases and…
HRAF 2016 in Review & 2017 Preview
2017 is here, which means it’s time for our annual news and notes. This post will recap our highlights from 2016 as well as let you know what you can expect from HRAF in this…
Mississippian Tradition in eHRAF Archaeology
The Mississippian tradition, which includes sites like Cahokia, Moundville, Etowah, and Spiro, is represented by a group of polities that arose in the southeastern United States (particularly in the central and lower Mississippi Valley) after…
Human Relations Area Files Timeline: 1949 – Present
FRAN BARONE / 17 SEP 2015 For over 60 years, Human Relations Area Files has served the educational community and contributed to an understanding of world cultures by assembling, indexing, and providing access to primary…
HRAF collaboration with D-PLACE
We are pleased to share information about the Human Relations Area Files’ collaboration with D-PLACE, the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment. D-PLACE is an expandable and open-access database that brings together a dispersed…