By Francine Barone Settlements are central to human development, making shelter, dwellings, and residence patterns necessary foci of investigation in both anthropology and archaeology. This article seeks to address a related and easily overlooked aspect…
Manvir Singh is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Professor Singh is a cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist who regularly uses ethnographic data from eHRAF World Cultures in his research. A…
HRAF History In 1929, the Institute of Human Relations (IHR) was established at Yale University as an interdisciplinary center for cooperative research on problems of human welfare. In 1935, a small group of researchers under…
HRAF Global Scholar: Karminn C.D. Daytec Yañgot Title: Teaching Fellow in Anthropology University Affiliation: University of the Philippines Baguio Research Topic: Indigenous peoples in the Philippines Karminn C.D. Daytec Yañgot is a Teaching Fellow in…
The Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, a member-supported anthropological organization, is seeking a full-time (or 30-hour a week) coordinator for outreach as well as design of educational and research materials to support faculty,…
With the fall semester upon us, now is a good time to update yourself with HRAF’s products and services. This post will recap our essential anthropology resources for students, faculty and researchers. Our Products The…
Dear Librarians, If you are attending the 2017 Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, please join me at the HRAF booth #1054 for an informative tour of HRAF’s award-winning online…
In the eHRAF World Cultures and Archaeology databases you’ll find collected ethnographic and archaeological texts, subject indexed at the page and paragraph-level. The 3-digit subjects, also called OCMs, are based on the Outline of Cultural…
When citing a document from the eHRAF World Cultures or the eHRAF Archaeology database, please include both the original publication citation (if applicable) followed by information about where and when you found it. Evans-Pritchard, E.…
Aloha! The 2015 Annual Meeting for The Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) is currently taking place in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Although HRAF is one of the sponsors for this meeting, we cannot attend because we…