Human Relations Area Files

Register Today for an eHRAF Workshop

Please join us for one of our upcoming workshops will provide an informative overview to teaching and conducting research using the eHRAF databases: eHRAF World Cultures eHRAF Archaeology These workshops are designed for faculty members…

Teaching with eHRAF Archaeology

By Matthew Longcore, Ph.D. Director of Membership and Outreach, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut In addition to working for HRAF, I teach as an…

Think you know HRAF? Check out our podcast series on Choice’s ‘The Authority File’

Have you ever wondered how the Human Relations Area Files got its name? Or how we organized our ethnographic collections for members before the Internet? HRAF has partnered with Choice’s podcast The Authority File to…

Teferi Adem reflects on his experience as a Fulbright Scholar

My Fulbright Experience to Ethiopia, 2022-23 by Teferi Abate Adem, HRAF Research Anthropologist Conducting follow-up extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Wollo area of Ethiopia has been a deeply felt dream of mine over the last…

Remembering Lévi-Strauss and pre-digital HRAF: A conversation with Bernadette Bucher

Editor’s note: The following post contains contributions from Bernadette Bucher, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Fordham University. The early history of the Human Relations Area Files from 1949 in North America is public…