Teaching eHRAF: Homework Exercises, Individual Papers, Classroom Assignments, and Group Projects...and more

Web-based teaching resources for anthropology and archaeology have become increasingly popular as students use the internet, digital libraries, and Web-based databases for their research projects and homework assignments.  Teaching eHRAF is intended to be an innovative, interdisciplinary teaching resource for colleges and high schools aimed at providing faculty with ideas about how to use eHRAF in their curricula.  Please read the Introduction for a better understanding of the nature of Teaching eHRAF.  

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Students learning eHRAF at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 


1. General Anthropology

2. General Archaeology

3. Medical Anthropology

4. Research Methods

The student exercises above are teaching resources that contain varying topics and styles and can be used in conjunction with HRAF's two databases: the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography and the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.  Each chapter is assigned a level of difficulty:

Level I - student reads passage of text in eHRAF and answers fixed questions (answer provided to instructors), may involve some directed searches in eHRAF.
Level II - strategic searching in eHRAF with some direction.
Level III - research oriented exercises involving eHRAF and other research materials; moderately structured with some direction.
Level IV - more independent development of research and search strategies.

Contributors List
If you have questions, suggestions, and/or would like to contribute assignments or exercises for Teaching eHRAF, please contact HRAF at 1-800-520 (or 203-764-9401) or email hraf@yale.edu.

Other Resources for Teaching:

Rice, Patricia C. and David W. McCurdy, eds. Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ:Prentice Hall. 2002. See http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0130340707,00.html for more information.

Experience Rich Anthropology - Several different component projects and readings at http://era.anthropology.ac.uk.

Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing - Ethnography Atlas: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/Ethnoatlas/atlas.vopts.

Anthropological Index Online - published by the Royal Anthropological Institute - for online bibliographical searching at http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html.