HRAF News Vol. 2024-06
HRAF to exhibit at Royal Anthropological Institute Conference
HRAF will be an exhibitor at the Anthropology and Education conference in London hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Additionally, HRAF staff will share a presentation titled Teaching Anthropology Globally with HRAF Resources. On May 7th, HRAF hosted an enjoyable 75th Anniversary Celebration with virtual and in-person events. We are pleased to feature a video from Timothy Earle, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University and a former longtime member of HRAF Board. This month's featured HRAF Global Scholar Kamal Feriali is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Université Hassan II de Casablanca whose research interests include human diversity, anthropology of religion, environmental anthropology, and human rights. Please celebrate our anniversary by joining the Friends of HRAF.
The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) will host a major conference at Senate House, University of London from June 25th to 28th. The Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is a co-organizer of the conference.

The theme of the conference is Anthropology and Education, a focus that is sparked by the multiple contemporary challenges that anthropologists are faced with as they seek to teach and educate. The goal of the conference is to share innovative responses to these challenges.

HRAF staff members Matthew Longcore and Amanda Wescott will be exhibitors at the conference. Additionally, Matthew Longcore and Michael Fischer will present Teaching Anthropology Globally with HRAF Resources on Tuesday 25 June in Session 2 at 1:30 PM. The authors of the presentation are Francine Barone, Ben Kluga, Matthew Longcore, Michael Fischer, and Carol R. Ember.
HRAF hosted a 75th Anniversary Celebration on May 7, 2024. The HRAF Board of Sponsoring Members, past participants from the HRAF Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research, faculty members and researchers 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 and a video from Board Chairman Glenn Storey. Attendees enjoyed playing a fun game of HRAF Jeoparody, a great resource for teaching and learning. 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 members of the broader HRAF community. These videos will be uploaded once a month to our YouTube channel. Please celebrate our anniversary by joining the Friends of HRAF.

This month we are pleased to feature HRAF Global Scholar Kamal Feriali. Kamal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Université Hassan II de Casablanca.

Kamal studied English Literature and Linguistics in Morocco before making a major career switch to anthropology after a Fulbright Award for graduate study at the University of Florida. He received a PhD (2009) after completing a dissertation on Moroccan music-induced possession trance and its implications for anthropology and allied disciplines. His doctoral work was supported in part by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Kamal used a 2005 HRAF-based statistical study on child corporal punishment by Ember & Ember in his Anthropology and Human Rights course. This course introduces Moroccan students to the complex dilemmas surrounding cultural relativism and the universal doctrine of human rights.

Kamal supports HRAF’s mission and advocates for making access to the eHRAF databases affordable in lower income countries where anthropology is a burgeoning discipline. 

HRAF is honored to welcome Kamal Feriali as a HRAF Global Scholar for 2024. We wish him continued success.
In honor of our 75th anniversary, we are pleased to feature video recordings from members of the broader HRAF community. This month we are featuring a video from Timothy Earle, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.

Tim is an economic anthropologist who specializes in the archaeological studies of social inequality, leadership, and political economy. Having studied the emergence of social complexity in three world regions, Tim's work is comparative, searching for causes of alternative pathways to centralized power. He has studied irrigation agriculture as engineered landscapes and how land ownership translates into political control.

Presently, he studies comparatively the long-term development of political economies, emphasizing contrasts been intensified agricultural landscapes and long-distance trading and raiding as affecting political power.

Tim served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology (1995-2000) and President of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the HRAF Board for from 2008-2011 and again from 2012-2016.
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