Hide Working and Tanning Leather
In the United States and in many other societies leather is an integral part of fashion and household living. So, for example, in North America, most people own shoes or belts made out of leather,…
Category Archives: Teaching eHRAF
Student Paper Guidelines for Using eHRAF: One Professor’s Experience
When I began teaching at The College at Brockport, SUNY over eight years ago, I wanted my students in my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to have the experience of using eHRAF in researching their…
Overview of Archaeological Traditions
This exercise is designed for students to gain a better general understanding of archaeological traditions in terms of their locations, settlement systems, subsistence, relative time periods and other cultural markers. Instructions for the “Traditions Summary”…
General Archaeology Research Project
Directions A. Oral Aspect – 100 Points 1. Choose a New World or and Old World archaeological site from the list below. 2. When you have made your choice begin filling out the data forms…
Altered States of Consciousness (Explaining Human Culture)
These eHRAF exercises are designed to accompany the module Altered States of Consciousness in Explaining Human Culture. After reviewing evidence for practices involving altered states of consciousness (ASC) in prehistory, the module gives a general…
Kinship and Land Use
*Note to Instructors*: This assignment is suitable for teaching large anthropology classes. The questions draw from specific text document results of Advanced Searches in eHRAF World Cultures. An Answer Key for this assignment is available…
Kinship and Egalitarian Principles Using the eHRAF World Cultures Database and the HRAF Homepage
*Note to Instructors*: This assignment is suitable for teaching large anthropology classes. The questions draw from specific text document results of Advanced Searches in eHRAF World Cultures. At the end of the assignment, general questions…
Dwellings (Explaining Human Culture)
These eHRAF exercises are designed to accompany the Dwellings Module: Explaining Human Culture which gives a general picture of what we have learned from cross-cultural research about predictors of dwellings from their shape, size and building…
Hunter-Gatherers (Explaining Human Culture)
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…
Exercises Using eHRAF World Cultures
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…