HRAF News Vol. 2024-05
HRAF Celebrates 75th Anniversary
HRAF hosted an enjoyable celebration on Tuesday, May 7th in honor of our 75th anniversary. This month we are delighted to share a video from Brea McCauley, the first in series of videos which have been created as part of our anniversary celebration. HRAF Research Anthropologist Dr. Teferi Abate Adem is a contributing author to an upcoming book about warfare in Ethiopia. Our featured HRAF Global Scholar this month is Karminn C.D. Daytec Yañgot, a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines Baguio. Please celebrate our anniversary by joining the Friends of HRAF.
On May 7, 2024 the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University hosted a celebration in honor of our 75th anniversary.

The HRAF Board of Sponsoring Members, past participants from the HRAF Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research, researchers and faculty members featured in our 75th anniversary videos, and HRAF staff members gathered on Zoom for a virtual celebration.

The celebration included opening remarks from President Carol Ember, a video from Board Chair Glenn Storey, and a fun game of HRAF Jeoparody.

After the virtual celebration, staff members at the HRAF office in New Haven, Connecticut enjoyed a birthday cake featuring the HRAF 75th Anniversary logo.

In the year ahead, we will be featuring video recordings from the broader HRAF community.
In honor of our 75th anniversary, we are pleased to feature video recordings from members of the broader HRAF community including researchers, instructors, and those who have served on our Board of Sponsoring Members. In the year ahead, we will feature a new video each month.

This month we are featuring a video from Brea McCauley, a doctoral student in the Archaeology program at Simon Fraser University. Brea is a
a member of the Crawford Lab of Evolutionary Studies Research Group and the Human Evolutionary Studies Program.

Within the framework of cross-cultural research, Brea is investigating the variability in different types of Permanent Body Modification (PBM) practices. She participated in the 2021 HRAF Summer Institute for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research.
Brea was also panelist at the 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting.
This month we are pleased to feature HRAF Global Scholar Karminn C.D. Daytec Yañgot.

Karminn is a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines Baguio, where she is concurrently earning her Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies.
Her research and development work focuses on indigenous peoples and claims-making in the Philippines, as well as political constructions and (re)presentations of indigeneity. She is also interested in human rights issues and transitional justice, collective flourishing, and storytelling as a research method.

Karminn is using the eHRAF World Cultures database for her dissertation on native title in the
Philippines. Native title presents a peculiarity for indigenous peoples in the Philippines because of
the legislation and codification of indigeneity. Collective land tenure systems are imposed by law
where there are none, as well as places land tenure systems already existed.
In turn, indigenous peoples (re)configure(d) their lifeways in order for their land rights to be recognized. This reciprocal relationship between law and culture, and how it has changed over time and space,
opens an avenue for anthropological research.

HRAF is honored to welcome Karminn C.D. Daytec Yañgot as a HRAF Global Scholar for 2024. We wish her continued success.
Dr. Teferi Abate Adem, a research anthropologist at HRAF, is a contributing author to an upcoming edited volume that seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of why Ethiopia is lately experiencing a surge in ethnically based armed violence and what its citizens are doing to overcome this challenge. His contribution to the volume discusses the ways in which rural people in Ethiopia’s Amhara region have responded to the war and been affected by it.

There has been very little published on the intersectionality of armed conflict with micro-level social processes such as the everyday pragmatic responses of households and village communities. This knowledge gap has blurred our understanding of war’s uneven impacts across different social groups and communities.

In his book chapter, Teferi explores the lived wartime experiences of affected village communities, farming households, and categories of persons. He achieves this goal through nuanced ethnographic analysis of the ways in which rural people responded to and have been affected by the war as it expanded from Tigray in the south all the way to North Shewa. 

Manuscripts for the volume have been submitted for peer review. A book workshop is scheduled for August 20-23, 2024 and Teferi is looking forward to participating.
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