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Human Relations Area Files


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MIC

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Description
 

Human Relations Area Files.  New Haven, CT: HRAF, Inc., 1949+.

UNCAT LOC IN MIC ROOM  Microfiche. 24x.

      SCOPE:

            HRAF is a non-profit research corporation sponsored and controlled by twenty-four universities and research institutions. The aim is "to build an adequate sample of the world's cultures for comparative research," and this collection contains a vast amount of ethnographic material.

      ARRANGEMENT:

            By the classification scheme set out in the Outline  of World Cultures, described below.

REF FINDING AIDS:

MIC FLM GN   345.3 M87 REF

Murdock, George Peter.  Outline of World Cultures, New Haven: HRAF, 1975. 5th ed.   Lists the area or cultural classification which is  the basis of the file's organization. Murdock, George Peter and others. 

MIC FLM H 62 B36 1961 REF

Outline of Cultural Materials. New Haven: HRAF, 1961. 4th rev.

V.1   A subject classification of cultural topics. Naroll, Raoul, and Donald Morrison, Index to Human

MIC FLM H 62 H736X REF

Relations Area Files, New Haven: HRAF, 1972.

A complete subject index to more than 4,000 sources  in the HRAF files up to 1967.

MIC FLM H2 6236X H736X1 SUP

Index to the Human Relations Area Files: Supplement I, compiled by Joan Steffens. New Haven: HRAF, 1979. Human Relations Area Files, Inc.

Covers materials added to the files between August 1967and July 1, 1977.

MIC FLM H 62 Z 999 1976 REF

Human Relations Area Files.  HRAF Source Bibliography, New Haven: HRAF, 1976. 

A list of books, articles, and manuscripts  processed for the HRAF files arranged by the world cultural group.

Lagace, Robert O.  Nature and Use of the HRAF

MIC FLM GN 33 L27X

Files: A Research and Teaching Guide, New Haven: HRAF,  1974.

A comprehensive guide to the use of the HRAF system.

      SUBJECT:

            Anthropology