The intention of this assignment is to illustrate principles of scientific method by using the eHRAF World Cultures database at http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu to explore the relationship between diet and attitudes toward salt. We are all familiar…

Go to: Part 1: Syllabus | Part 2: Ethnographic Outline | Part 3: eHRAF Assignments Part 1: Syllabus Course Purpose Sociocultural anthropology provides ways of seeing other peoples and cultures in their own terms. In…

Part I: Syllabus – Assignments and Topics Course Purpose In this course, we will examine printed and web-based literature on causes of violence.  Using the ethnographies from assigned literature and the electronic Human Relations Area…

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…

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…

Note by 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 marriage using eHRAF…

Unlike most exercises in Teaching eHRAF that focus on searching ethnographic texts, this exercise uses the Browse Cultures function and information from the culture summaries. The culture summaries contain short entries on the following categories: Types of Categories…

Note to instructors: The following assignment has worked successfully for courses with student enrollments from 25-40. Group sizes of 5 tend to work best for this assignment. It introduces students to eHRAF World Cultures as…

The following exercises are designed for in-class use in an introductory anthropology course. They are linked to data in eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology. The purpose of the workbook is to give students a…