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

Teaching eHRAF is an innovative, interdisciplinary teaching resource for universities, colleges and high schools aimed at providing faculty with ideas on how to use the eHRAF World Cultures & Archaeology* databases in their curricula.  Please read the Introduction for a better understanding of the nature of Teaching eHRAF.  

HRAF offers user guides and webinars to students (and faculty) to familiarize themselves with eHRAF World Cultures & Archaeology. For classroom teaching webinars can be customized to match particular course topics (e.g., medical anthropology, ethnobotany, etc.). Please contact christiane.cunnar@yale.edu for more information.

 

Students learning eHRAF at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 


1. General Anthropology

2. General Archaeology

3. Medical Anthropology

4. Research Methods

*Using the exercises requires access to the online eHRAF World Cultures/Archaeology databases.  If prompted for a password, contact HRAF (hraf@yale.edu, 1-203-764-9401) for a password or free semester-long trial. To familiarize yourself with the eHRAF World Cultures/Archaeology databases and their unique indexing and search systems, we recommend that users view the eHRAF User Guides

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.