HRAF is pleased to announce the recipients of the HRAF Global Scholars Program for 2025. This program provides scholars around the world with one year of complimentary access to our research databases, eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology.

We are pleased to welcome seven HRAF Global Scholars for 2025.

Jorge Eduardo Miceli

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Grace Marceline Kumah

University of Education, Ghana

Raj Kumar Singh

University of Delhi, India

Myra Abukakar

International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, Indonesia

Uriel Alan Olvera Portilla

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

Dr. Abdul Razaque Channa University of Sindh, Pakistan

Melkamu Amsalu Workneh University of South Africa

Congratulations to our new cohort of HRAF Global Scholars!

Click here to read about the HRAF Global Scholars 2025

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 Sheina Lew-Levy, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom.

Sheina uses quantitative and qualitative methods from psychology and anthropology to conduct research on hunter-gatherer societies. Her goal is not only to understand cultural diversity in childhood social learning, but also to use it to shed light on its possible evolution. Her methods provide insights on children’s learning through their meaningful participation in everyday activities.

She co-founded and co-directs Forager Child Studies, an interdisciplinary research team that analyzes cross-cultural data to illuminate forager children's learning in the past, present, and future.

Sheina discusses how "eHRAF is an amazing resource for understanding human diversity and (identifying) trends in how kids grow up around the world."

Click here to watch the video from Sheina Lew-Levy

Looking for a last minute holiday gift? Give the gift of cultural knowledge with an Independent Researcher Membership to our research databases, eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology.

Comprising the largest anthropological database in the world, our ethnographic and archaeological databases include nearly 1 million pages of expertly indexed information on over 470 cultures and traditions.

The eHRAF databases are ideal for anthropologists, archaeologists, cross-cultural researchers, psychologists, data scientists, linguists, social scientists, and other researchers interested in a global perspective on cultural and social life, past and present.

This category of membership is for independent researchers who are unaffiliated with an existing HRAF member institution and who wish to use the eHRAF databases for research purposes.

Learn about an Independent Researcher Membership

At the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) presented the Carol R. Ember Book Prize to Diane M. Tober for her book Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them. The prize "recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of the Society for Anthropological Sciences to advance the scientific study of human societies."

As announced on the SAS website, "Eggonomics explores the ethical and social implications of the global egg donation industry, examining how donors are often commodified and exploited in the pursuit of profit. Drawing on international anthropological fieldwork, it reveals the physical and emotional toll on donors, the role of eugenic selection in donor choice, and the impact of corporate capitalism on fertility medicine."

Click here to read about the Carol R. Ember Book Prize