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…
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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…
Reindeer for Milk Production
Here are the steps in eHRAF World Cultures to search for the use of reindeer for milk production. For this search it’s best to use the “Add Subjects” function and keywords in an Advanced Search. Steps…
Cooperative Labor in Farming: Comparing Eastern to Western Societies
The eHRAF World Cultures is a great resource when it comes to comparing Eastern to Western cultures on topics such as cooperative labor in agriculture and farming….after all, it’s a cross-cultural database that automatically searches across major regions…
Tibetan Medical Treatments
Whether wounds, snake bites, or fractures are treated, or surgeries are being performed, in eHRAF’s Advanced Search the “Add Subjects” can be used to pick “sickness” or other medical related subjects. The subjects allow you…