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HRAF Academic Quarterly, Vol 2023-02

HRAF Academic Quarterly Vol 2023-02 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), Teaching eHRAF,…

Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research 2023

The National Science Foundation (NSF), in a grant to the Human Relations Area Files (BCS #2020156), is supporting three years of Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research. These Summer Institutes will train faculty, researchers, and…

HRAF Attends 2022 AAA Annual Meeting

HRAF staff members attended the 2022 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting from November 9-13 in Seattle, Washington. The theme of this year’s meeting, “Unsettling Landscapes”, encouraged anthropological discussion of the past, present, and future. Exhibit…

Recap of the Second HRAF Summer Institute for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research (July 18 to August 5, 2022)

Our second NSF-supported Summer Institute for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research was held on the Yale University campus this summer. It was an intense and exciting three weeks for the instructors and the 12 participants that included…

Teaching a comparative approach with eHRAF research papers

The Comparative Approach in Anthropology In a blog titled Where Have All the Comparisons Gone?, originally published on the website for the Society For Cultural Anthropology, Robert Borofsky from the Center For A Public Anthropology…

Society for Applied Anthropology 82nd Annual Meeting Recap (March 22-26, 2022)

HRAF Research Anthropologist Ian Skoggard attended the SAA 82nd Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah in March 2022. Continue reading for Ian’s report on the event and its highlights. The 82nd annual meeting of…

HRAF Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research (2022) [Applications CLOSED]

Summer 2022 The National Science Foundation, in a grant to the Human Relations Area Files (BCS #2020156), is supporting three years of Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research. These Summer Institutes will train faculty, researchers,…