1. General Anthropology

• 1.1. Student Paper Guidelines for Using eHRAF: One Professor's Experience, Level I—Useful tips for faculty using eHRAF World Cultures for student assignments, by Douglas A. Feldman.
• 1.2. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: A Syllabus, Level I—Guidelines for writing a student paper using eHRAF World Cultures, by Douglas A. Feldman.
• 1.3. An eHRAF Workbook for Introductory Anthropology Courses, Level I—Diverse topics in anthropology such as kinship, cosmology, witchcraft, storytelling, feuding, etc., by Ian Skoggard.
• 1.4. Ethnology and Ethnography in Anthropology, Level III—eHRAF assignment: group presentation/individual paper, by Dianna Shandy.
• 1.5. Overview of Cultures and Ethnic Groups, Level I—General topics regarding cultures, by Christiane Cunnar.
• 1.6. Soc. Anthro: Short Paper on Basis of Marriage and Arranging a Marriage, Level II, by Brad R. Huber
• 1.7. Anthropology of Religion: Short Paper on Sacred Objects and Places and on Animism, Level II, by Brad R. Huber
• 1.8. Native Peoples in South America: A Comparative Ethnography, Level III, by Howard Kress
• 1.9. A Cross-Cultural Study of Violence, Level III, by Nicola Tannenbaum
• 1.10. Explorations in Cross Cultural Anthropology, Level III, by Nicola Tannenbaum
• 1.11. Basic Cross-Cultural Research Assignment, Level II, by Brian Mooney 
• 1.12. Ecological Function of a Behavioral Institution in a Nomadic Society, A Short Paper, Level II, by Dan Strouthes
• 1.13. Ecological Function of a Behavioral Insitution in a Pastoral or Horticultural Society, A Short Paper, Level II, by Dan Strouthes
• 1.14. Political Function of a Religious Institution, A Short Paper, Level II, by Dan Strouthes
• 1.15. Ritual Kinship, A Short Paper, Level II, by Dan Strouthes
• 1.16. Cross-Cultural Correlation Study (5-7 Page Paper), Level III, by Vicki Bentley-Condit
• 1.17. Library Assignment: Finding Anthropological Resources (5-7 Page Paper and Bibliography), Level III, by Jerome M. Levi
• 1.18. Culture and Aging (A Research Project in Completed Fertility & Subsistence Practices, Productivity & Aging, and Social Networks & Aging), Level III, by Sara E. Johnson
• 1.19. Eating Salt and Symbols: Exploring the Relationship of Biology and Culture with eHRAF Level III, by Susan Parman
  
• 1.20. Bizarre Foods: A Syllabus, Level I, by Sonya Atalay.
• 1.21. Exercises using eHRAF , Level I, by Carol R. Ember.

2. General Archaeology

• 2.1. General Archaeology-Research Project, Level III—Research on archaeological sites in the Old and New World, by Thomas Miller.
• 2.2. Overview of Archaeological Traditions, Level I, by Christiane Cunnar.
• 2.3. Burial Practices, Level I & II—A world-wide comparison of burial practices in prehistoric times, by Christiane Cunnar.
• 2.4. Hide Working and Tanning Leather, Level II—A look at ethnographies for work in leather, by Christiane Cunnar.

3. Medical Anthropology

• 3.1. Topics in Medical Anthropology, Level II—Topics on illness causation, medical systems, ethnobotany, and ethnozoology, by Christiane Cunnar

• 3.2. Causes of Disease, Level I, by Christiane Cunnar.

• 3.3. Reproductive Health, Level II—Topics on menstruation, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, by Christiane Cunnar.

• 3.4. Medical Anthropology: Short Paper on Nutrition (OCM 146),  Level II, by Brad R. Huber

4. Research Methods

• 4.1. Anthropological Research Methods--Project #1: Research Questions and Hypotheses,  Level IV, by Brad R. Huber
• 4.2. Anthropological Research Methods--Project #2: HRAF Data Recovery, Level IV,  requires the use of the statistical software program SPSS, by Brad Huber.
• 4.3. Anthropological Research Methods--Project #3: Group Poster Presentation,  Level IV, by Brad R. Huber

• 4.4. Cross-Cultural Comparison with the eHRAF World Cultures Database, Level III—A 50-Minute Computer Lab Group Assignment; links to the class syllabus for Methods and Analysis for Anthropology and to other assignments such as pollster statistics, unobstrusive observations,etc., by Bruce Freeman

• 4.5. Tattooing and Techniques of  Cross-Cultural Research, Level IV—Includes a syllabus, basic steps of a cross-cultural study, outline of a study paper, outline of a conference paper, hypotheses, sample

*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.