Collaboration opens up significant new opportunities for comparative ethnography-based ‘research and implementation’ HRAF Advanced Research Centers (hrafARC) aims to develop and apply new paradigms for comparative research to address outcomes emerging from human complexity and…
Originally published in CHOICE Magazine (October 2015). eHRAF Archaeology, from the Human Relations Area Files, Yale University. Human Relations Area Files. https://hraf.yale.edu/online-databases/ehraf-archaeology/ Contact publisher for pricing. [Revisited Jul’15] Like its companion database eHRAF World Cultures (CH, Apr’13,…
Originally published in CHOICE Magazine (October 2015). eHRAF World Cultures, from the Human Relations Area Files, Yale University. Human Relations Area Files. https://hraf.yale.edu/online-databases/ehraf-world-cultures Contact publisher for pricing (Revisited Jul ’15) The complex Human Relations Area…
Abstract iKLEWS (Infrastructure for Knowledge Linkages from Ethnography of World Societies) is a HRAF project funded by the National Science Foundation. iKLEWS will create semantic infrastructure and associated computer services for a growing textual database…
Research Associate Cynthiann Heckelsmiller is a PhD. candidate in Anthropology (Washington State University), holds an MSc. in Ethnobotany (University of Kent 2015), and a BS. in Botany (Weber State University 2014). Her research focuses on…
Research Associate Dr. Samantha King is a Research Associate at the HRAF Advanced Research Centers at Yale University. She holds degrees in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD, 2022), the…
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in a grant to the Human Relations Area Files (BCS #2020156), supported three years of Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research from 2021-2023. The first institute was held virtually because…
To advance a mission to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present, HRAF relies largely on dues paid by member institutions (primarily universities and colleges). These dues directly support the…
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Note to instructors: The following assignment has worked successfully for courses with student enrollments from 25-40. Group sizes of 5 tend to work best for this assignment. It introduces students to eHRAF World Cultures as…