Looking Ahead with 2020 Vision

HRAF News Vol. 2020-1

As we begin a new year and a new decade, we simultaneously look back on the exciting developments of our recent past, as well as look forward to the emerging advancements on the horizon. For a summary of these activities, please check out our annual year-in-review post. We are also pleased to announce our eHRAF World Cultures video tutorial, our partnership with the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges , and our HRAF Global Scholarship winners . As always, we welcome the support of donors to fund our priorities.

Welcome to 2020! It’s time for our annual News & Notes recap and preview. Our post HRAF 2019 in Review & 2020 Preview summarizes our highlights from the previous year, as well as what you can expect to see from HRAF over the next 12 months.

Did you know that 2019 marked our 70th anniversary ? It was another eventful year as we celebrated this milestone. Here are the topics featured in our year-in-review:

Membership Updates
Community Colleges
Global Scholarship
Culture Updates
Most Popular Posts
Explaining Human Culture
Teaching eHRAF
Research from HRAF
Beta version of eHRAF

To keep up-to-date with HRAF in 2020, please visit our homepage and follow us on Facebook ,

Instagram , and Twitter .

Click here to read our year-in-review and new year preview.

As we begin a new year, it is also the time of year when faculty are preparing to teach in the upcoming spring semester. HRAF is pleased to announce our new video tutorial making its debut on YouTube this month.

The new video is a perfect companion for classroom instruction. Showing the video in class is a great way to introduce your students to eHRAF World Cultures .

This how-to video covers all aspects of navigating eHRAF World Cultures, including a demonstration of how to compare different cultures around a specific subject.

Be sure to like and subscribe to the HRAF YouTube page so that you be notified when additional videos are added.

Also, please let us know if there is a specific topic for a video you would like to see us produce next!

Click here to view the eHRAF World Cultures video tutorial.

After the great success of the HRAF Global Scholarship competition that we first launched in 2018, we were delighted to continue the program for 2019.

For 2019 the scholarship was opened to both individuals and academic institutions in low- or middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank. The scholarship provides one year of access to eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology at no charge to the individual or their academic institution. We are pleased to announce our 2020 Global Scholarship Winners :

Institutional Scholarships

University of Caldas
Rock Art Research Institute
Hekima Institute (HIPSIR)

Individual Scholarships

Sandi James, Malaysia
Masanga Ndungi, DRC
Kolo Pascal, Cameroon
Getnet Tibebu, Ethiopia
Abel Dula Wedajo, Ethiopia

Congratulations to all!

Click here to read about the Global Scholarship winners.

HRAF is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) . SACC is a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) founded in 1978 to promote excellence in the teaching of anthropology.

The partnership with SACC is part of the HRAF Community College Initiative , launched in 2019 to recognize the important role of community colleges in providing students with access to quality, affordable opportunities for higher education.

HRAF and SACC are in alignment on three major principles: supporting diversity and equity, sharing resources, and advocating for students.

The key areas of the HRAF-SACC partnership are: