Human Relations Area files

located at Yale University, this is an ambitious attempt to construct a coded, descriptive data base of comparative ETHNOGRAPHIC findings about the cultures of the world. The US anthropologist, G. P. Murdoch (1887-1985), was central to the enterprise, among the products of which was his Ethnographic Atlas (Murdoch, 1967).

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The paper presents results from a recent, simple search of the term "adoption" in the anthropological database of the online Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF).

THE EVOLUTION OF ADOPTION: A PRELIMINARY H.R.A.F. SURVEY

Thornhill tracked information on mating and marriage rules in the ethnographies of 129 societies -- from the 16th-century Incas to the 20th-century Vietnamese -- stored at the Human Relations Area Files in New Haven, Conn., a research arm of Yale University.

Oedipus wrecked: Freud's theory of frustrated incest goes on the defensive

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