eHRAF World Cultures

The award-winning eHRAF World Cultures database contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life, making it an ideal repository of cultural knowledge for anthropological and cross-cultural research within and across disciplines. It was awarded CHOICE’s as well as named a “Top 10 Internet Resource” in 2015.

eHRAF is distinctive among other databases in having subject indexing at the paragraph level provided by HRAF anthropologists. The subjects that are used in indexing and searching the ethnographic texts in eHRAF are based on the , a vast thesaurus of subject terms and descriptions. This allows for detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords. The eHRAF application offers researchers the ability to search by cultures, subjects, regions, and even subsistence types. The is also used to organize the eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology databases. First developed by G.P. Murdock in the 1950s as a classification system of cultures of the world originally organized by region and country, it is presently organized by region and sub-region and covers over 2,500 .

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Last updated: July 20, 2022

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This license is made available through a national site license negotiated on behalf of Consortia Canada by Council of Prairie and Pacific Univeristy Libraries (COPPUL).

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Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)

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Human Relations Area Files