Note from the editors: Dr. Huber uses this short paper assignment as extra credit. Goal: The goal of this project is to have you do a little research on the topic of religion using eHRAF…
Introduction The database you are about to use contains information on all aspects of social and cultural life from 60 cultural regions around the world. The sample of cultures, known as the Probability Sample Files…
DUE:__________________________ The main goal of this exercise is to develop and present research posters based on the cross-cultural data you collected during Project #2 (see Anthropological Research Methods–Project #2: HRAF Data Recovery). The same pairs…
Adapted from Teaching eHRAF Exercise Exercise III. Food by Carol Ember. Download In-Class Activity PDF PowerPoint Hunter Gatherers & Agriculturalists In this exercise, you will compare and contrast social and political dimensions of life between…
Ethnographic Fieldwork Ethnographic fieldwork is how anthropologists gather data. Fieldwork is the process of immersing oneself in as many aspects of the daily cultural lives of people as possible in order to study their behaviors…
The following project is used in an anthropology course on the Native Peoples of South America. The project is designed to be a comparative ethnography. The questions were written to match the topics covered in…
These exercises are designed to accompany the Explaining Human Culture: Hunter-Gatherers module which gives a general picture of what we have learned from cross-cultural research on hunter-gatherers, or more precisely, what we think we know, and…
Part 1: Syllabus Course Summary In this course, students will be introduced to formal approaches (methods) used to describe and analyze the social world (social research). We shall first consider the research act as a…
Adapted from Teaching eHRAF Exercise Exercise VI. Sexuality by Carol Ember Download In-Class Activity PDF PowerPoint Summary In this activity, you will conduct basic research on the diversity of social attitudes towards premarital sexual relations…
Language and Culture Human culture and language are deeply intertwined. Anthropologists would have difficulty understanding a culture without becoming familiar with its language and vice versa. In fact, neither one can exist without the other.…