Spring has certainly started but its still cold and windy in New Haven. Our HRAF house at 755 Prospect is kept nice and toasty, with ample coffee,
so drop in and see us sometime if you are in the Northeast! 

Aside from ramping up our open-source teaching platform, and gearing up for exciting Spring and Summer projects with eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology, we are having fun with some 'extracurricular' anthropological archiving projects---including digitizing and exhibiting Melvin Ember's (HRAF President 1987-2009) ethnographic photographs from Samoa, as well as psychological anthropologist Beatrice Blythe Whiting's photographs from 1950's Kenya. 

We've also decided to give a name to our HRAF monthly newsletter (the one you are looking at right now). Get in touch with us  to offer name suggestions or suggest featured research.
HRAF at Yale
GROUNDBREAKING CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH ON SONGS 
Do songs share certain forms 
across the world?  N ew ground-breaking 
research on cross-cultural patterns in human song suggests songs do share recognizable forms (Mehr and Singh et al 2018). Our multimedia post  by anthropologist Dr. Alissa Jordan presents and reflects on these findings using  visual and ethnomusicological materials from rural Haiti.
WE HAVE PLANS, FOLKS. BIG PLANS.
It's been another eventful year at 755 Prospect in New Haven.  Check out our year-in-review post to learn about whats in store for the upcoming year and to review last year's research. Joining our team is intern Emily Pitek, who is working with president Carol Ember on c ross-cultural research into environmental disasters and human society, and Dr. Alissa Jordan.
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ANNOUNCING OUR NEWEST COLLECTIONS
Feast your eyes on our brand new collections in eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology. Members---you now have access to these just-released, freshly coded document collections!

Not yet a member? No problem. Get in touch and we'll provide free trial access so you can check it out. 

 
eHRAF World Cultures

CULTURE
REGION
TIME COVERAGE
South Asia
(Western Coast India)
1342-Early 21st Century
Northwest Coast and California
(Alaska & Arctic Isles)
1774-Late 20th Century
Middle America & 
Caribbean  (Central Mexico)
1168-Early 20th Century
Southern South America
(Northern Argentina & Western Paraguay)
1901-Late 20th Century




eHRAF Archaeology 

TRADITION
REGION
TIME COVERAGE
South Asia
(Afghanistan, India, Pakistan)
2600 BP-1900 BP 
(calibrated)
Americas
15,500 BP-12,500 BP (calibrated)
South Asia 
(India, Pakistan)
3900 BP - 2500 BP

Librarians: We're happy to help get the word out about new collections to faculty at member institutions.
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