What is the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography?
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography, or eHRAF Ethnography for short, is a web-based multicultural database for scholars, researchers, teachers, and students with an interest in cultural diversity. With over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of social and cultural life and a unique classification and retrieval system, eHRAF Ethnography serves as an excellent teaching and research tool for cross-cultural studies. As of April 2003, there is information on 127 cultures from around the world. The eHRAF ethnography database is geared towards people who are looking for cultural information: on a general subject, on a specific aspect of a subject, on a particular culture, or on a geographical region. For the purposes of demonstration in this tutorial, we have selected mythology as our general subject. More specifically, we are interested in the mythological roles of animals (particularly the wolf) among the Native Americans of the northwest Plains in the United States. To search the
