These Teaching eHRAF exercises are designed to accompany the “Residence and Kinship” module in Explaining Human Culture. This module gives a general picture of what we have learned from cross-cultural research about variation in kin…
Download: HRAF Jeoparody .PPT | Note to Instructors & Categories Dr. Francine Barone | francine.barone@yale.edu Human Relations Area Files at Yale University Note to Instructors HRAF Jeoparody is an interactive class activity based on the…
HRAF Community College Initiative The HRAF Community College Initiative recognizes the important role of community colleges in providing students with access to affordable opportunities for higher education. There are nearly 1,300 community colleges in the…
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…
By 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…
Nascent Worlds, a teaching exercise by digital anthropologist Dr. Francine Barone, is a build-your-own-culture learning activity. Designed with introductory socio-cultural anthropology classes in mind, it incorporates all four fields of anthropology (physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology,…
In homage to the late Alex Trebek (1940-2020), host of the television game show Jeopardy! for 37 years, we are pleased to share a new interactive HRAF game: eHRAF Archaeology Jeoparody. A play on the…
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…
Final exam week has begun for the Fall 2021 semester at the University of Connecticut, which has access to the eHRAF World Cultures database. HRAF’s member services manager Matthew Longcore, who is also an adjunct…
Is romantic kissing a cultural universal? According to cross-cultural researchers, the answer, definitively, is no. While western societies often take for granted the notion that romantic partners express their desire for one another through kissing,…