The Institute of Human Relations, Yale University. Here, in 1935, a small group of researchers began to design a system that would allow the rapid retrieval of information on a broad range of societies. In…

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Before HRAF went digital, member institutions needed special filing cabinets to store our 5" x 8" file pages! Some even had whole rooms dedicated to housing the ethnographic info. Continue Reading HRAF paper

Men and boys from the Orang Rimbu tribe in Sumatra, Indonesia. The Orang Rimbo, also referred to as Kubu, are one of the few hunter-gatherer groups in Southeast Asia. The photo was taken August 2005…