HRAF is excited to announce a new feature in eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology. Author profiles have been added to the eHRAF databases.

These author profiles feature biographical information about the more than eight thousand authors who wrote the documents that make up eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology.

Biographical information available for these authors include:

• Gender
• Nationality
• Date and place of birth
• Date and place of death
• Occupation
• Country of education
• And more

It will also be possible to filter eHRAF search results with author gender and country of education, with more filters coming soon.

Click here to read more about author profiles in eHRAF

As we reflect on the past year and begin a new year, HRAF would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to our new and reactivating members from 2025.

We are especially pleased by the diversity and global reach of these members.

• American University of Paris
• Association for Cultural Equity
• Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• CASEs Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Ocean County College
• Rand Corporation Small Research Institute
• Triton College
• University of North Carolina Charlotte
• Vilnius University Institute of Asian & Transcultural Studies
• Register of Professional Archaeologists
• Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern 

Click here to see a full list of our newest eHRAF members

HRAF is pleased to announce a one-year full-time internship in honor of Melvin Ember, President of HRAF from 1987 until his passing in 2009.

The purpose of the internship is to learn about cross-cultural research through practical

experience. Duties include reading and analyzing recent cross-cultural research with the goal of summarizing materials in Explaining Human Culture, as well as participating in ongoing cross-cultural research projects.

The interns will receive a stipend for living expenses and travel costs. Preference will be given to

candidates who intend to pursue graduate study in anthropology or a closely related field, or who have already started graduate school.

Candidates must demonstrate an

ability to perform basic statistical analyses and have accomplished academic records, particularly in their major fields and in anthropology courses.

Internship candidates must

already have the right to work in the United States at the time of application and have (or will have) graduated from college by the beginning of the internship.

Click here to read about the Melvin Ember Internship

The HRAF Academic Quarterly, written by Dr. Francine Barone, is a great way to catch up on how eHRAF data and other HRAF resources have been used by scholars for research publications and conference presentations. The latest edition opens with cross-cultural research on hunter-gatherer locomotion and diversity in human leadership. There are two studies on gender: one on textile-related craft production and the other measuring gender inequality and market integration. From archaeology, there is new kinship research on Neolithic and Bronze Age residence patterns as well as modeling prehistoric Neolithic survival. Other fascinating research looks at categorizing objects by their cultural affordances; classifying human morals and values; and body-based numeration systems. Two examples of conservation studies using eHRAF data and Indigenous knowledge cover Amazonian fish migration and caribou conservation in Saskatchewan. Mike Fischer and Ben Kluga presented a poster on Ethnography as Language Model presented at the AAA Annual Meeting, and a study recently published by Samantha King, et. al. outlining a global comparative approach to the study of natural hazards using ethnographic data.

Click here to read the HRAF Academic Quarterly