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…
HRAF Global Scholar: Dr. Abdul Razaque Channa Title: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology University Affiliation: University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan Research Topic: Gender, Education, Subaltern Societies and Indigenous Communities HRAF Global…
HRAF Global Scholar: Grace Marceline Kumah Title: Course Representative University Affiliation: University of Education, Winneba, Ghana Research Topic: Family Life Management Education HRAF Global Scholar Grace Marceline Kumah is a student in Family Life Management…
HRAF Global Scholar: Melkamu Amsalu Workneh Title: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology University Affiliation: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Research Topic: Land Scarcity and Marriage in Northwestern Ethiopia HRAF Global 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…
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…
The Human Relations Area Files at Yale University has enjoyed a wonderful year in celebration of HRAF’s 75th Anniversary. On February 26, 1949, delegates from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Oklahoma,…
HRAF Academic Quarterly, Vol 2024-04 Francine Barone This summary features some of the exciting research accomplished using HRAF data from the eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology databases as well as Explaining Human Culture (EHC),…
By Michael Kimball Professor, Department of Anthropology College of Humanities & Social Sciences University of Northern Colorado In 2016, as I was writing my interdisciplinary cultural anthropology textbook, Ethnowise, I needed ethnographic snippets to enhance…
Francine Barone It’s time for our annual Year in Review. This article will summarize HRAF’s activities from the previous year as well as describe what you can expect to see from us over the next…