Are Teens Troublemakers Across the World?
“Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal…But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot…
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HRAF collaboration with D-PLACE
By Francine Barone 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…
eHRAF Archaeology: Inka of Peru
The Inka tradition extends from 800 to 400 BP. The original Inka homeland was the Cuzco valley of south-central Peru, but the Inka Empire eventually extended along the Andes from Columbia to northern Argentina and…
eHRAF Featured Country: Argentina
Over 400 cultures are represented across our collections in the eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology databases. Did you know that you can browse our databases by country? Some countries in the world contain a…
eHRAF World Cultures: The Pashtun
The Pashtun inhabit southern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Their language is Pushto (Pashto), in the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Except for a small minority, they are Sunni Muslims. Until recently,…
Featured eHRAF Culture: The Maasai
The Maasai (Masai), nomadic pastoralists who live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, are one of the 295 cultures covered in the eHRAF World Cultures ethnographic database. Twenty-one documents totaling 2,571 pages make up the…
Updated & Redesigned User Guide in eHRAF Databases
By Francine Barone We are excited to announce the launch of our newly redesigned, comprehensive user guide for the eHRAF Databases. Our updated guide covers everything inside eHRAF, including Browse, Basic Search, Advanced Search, and filtering and…
Tradition Sequences in eHRAF Archaeology
eHRAF Archaeology includes entire tradition sequences for regions and subregions. For example, in Mesoamerica you can find the Maya sequence including Lowland Mesoamerican Archaic, Preclassic Maya, Classic Maya, and Postclassic Maya. For each tradition you…
People and Agriculture: eHRAF World Cultures
The article titled “A Forgotten Group Of Grains Might Help Indian Farmers – And Improve Diets, Too,”published by National Public Radio (NPR) on 9 February 2017, talks about how millet once used to be India’s main staple,…
Announcing quick & easy citations in eHRAF
By Francine Barone HRAF is pleased to announce exciting new citation and permalink features from our IT and Development team. Researching, citing and keeping track of ethnographic and archaeological sources in eHRAF have never been…