Causes of Disease
Cultural views on medicine vary widely; sometimes they even clash. Whereas an American doctor might view a common cold caused by germs, a faith healer in Asia or Africa might attribute the cold to evil…
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Topics in Medical Anthropology
Cultural views on medicine and medicinal systems vary widely. For example, a Western doctor may diagnose an illness as being caused by germs and prescribe penicillin as cure, a traditional healer may interpret an illness…
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…
Burial Practices: An eHRAF workbook for introductory archaeology courses
The following exercises are designed for in-class use or as homework assignment in an introductory archaeology course. They are linked to data in eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology. The purpose of the workbook is to…
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…