Tibetans in eHRAF World Cultures
The Tibetans are a farming and herding people who settled the high plateau region of southwestern China around 13,000 years ago. The first kingdoms appeared around 400 AD and a centralized dynasty in the seventh…
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Cross-Cultural Resources for Teaching– eHRAF World Cultures & Archaeology
Looking for new teaching ideas? eHRAF World Cultures & Archaeology are online ethnographic and cross-cultural databases which are compiled by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit organization at Yale University. HRAF’s online teaching tools for faculty…
Exploring Cultures by Regions and Subregions
Searching for cultures across regions (e.g. Africa) and subregions (e.g. Eastern Africa) is one of eHRAF’s unique features. This is especially important for regional comparisons of ethnic groups, indigenous people, and preindustrial societies. The major…
A Cross-cultural Study for Good Luck – Bad Luck
In eHRAF World Cultures you can search for “good luck” and “bad luck” using the Advanced Search with its “Add Subjects” feature and keywords. In “Add Subjects” you can pick OCM subjects such as “Luck…
Neolithic Houses with Thatched Roofs
In eHRAF Archaeology you can search for neolithic houses with thatched roofs using the Advanced Search with its “Add Traditions/Subjects” feature and keywords. In the Advanced Search use the “Add Traditions” function to browse across…
New Teaching Ideas for Faculty in Social Sciences
Teaching eHRAF is an innovative, interdisciplinary teaching resource for universities, colleges and high schools aimed at providing faculty with ideas on how to use the eHRAF World Cultures database in their curricula. Teaching eHRAF includes…
Olmec in eHRAF Archaeology
The height of the Olmec tradition dates from 3400 to 2100 BP, although the entire span may run from 3600 to 1750 BP. The Olmec cultural core area is the Gulf Coast plains and foothills…
A Cross-Cultural Search for Shamanism
In eHRAF’s Advanced Search the “Add Subjects” function can be used to pick “shamanism” as OCM subject. This and other OCM subjects can be used to search across all cultures and to find paragraphs and pages of ethnographic texts with…
Maasai and Ear Piercing and Other Body Modifications
In eHRAF’s Advanced Search the “Add Subjects” function can be used to pick “body modification” as OCM subject. This and other OCM subjects can be used to search across all cultures, or a specific culture (e.g. the Masai) to find paragraphs…
Internship for IT Development Support for Online Cross-Cultural Resources
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is seeking an intern to assist in the production and further development of its two web applications to support research and teaching, eHRAF World Cultures and…