Tag Archives: eHRAF World Cultures
Complete set of 186 SCCS cases available in eHRAF World Cultures
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is pleased to announce that eHRAF World Cultures now contains matching focal documents for all Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS) cases. The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample was created…
Home Truths: An Anthropology of House and Home
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 of this anthropological…
Exclusive look at the new eHRAF World Cultures database
After several years of development and months of beta testing, the new look for our eHRAF World Cultures database is scheduled to launch in Fall 2022. The official public rollout will begin in the Fall,…
Quick Start Guide for eHRAF World Cultures
We hope you are enjoying our new eHRAF World Cultures (beta) experience. To learn how to access the beta application, see this page. As a reminder, we will be officially launching the new design in…
Why Are Gods Thought to Cause Weather?
Carol R. Ember and Ian Skoggard In many societies known to anthropology, people look to their gods for help and for explanations of unfortunate and traumatic events. Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1948) suggested that religion is…
Starting the 2021 Fall Semester with HRAF
Current HRAF members will have followed the development of our new eHRAF World Cultures application throughout the beta design and testing period. As our development cycle comes to a close, we will begin transitioning to…
Ethnographic Insights Across Cultures: An online introduction to anthropology
In the third post in our series dedicated to online learning, we explored how the dynamics of classroom teaching everywhere are changing due to temporary campus closures. For instructors grappling with compiling work-from-home-friendly syllabi in…
Culture and Tradition updates in the eHRAF databases
In January, HRAF shared an update which included projections for new cultures and traditions that we expected to add to the eHRAF databases in 2020. Below is a list of the cultures we have added…
Craving comfort: bonding with food across cultures
Food is a universal human experience. People everywhere must eat to survive, yet what foods are eaten and how they are enjoyed can vary widely across cultures and time. “Comfort foods” made a comeback in…