A computer-generated index to the Human Relations Area Files offers a needed tool for accessing the vast amounts of information in the Files. Donald Morrison is a graduate student in Applied Mathematics and is a Research Associate for the Council for Intersocietal Studies, Northwestern University.
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The Human Relations Area Files was incorporated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1949 as a non-profit organization. For more information about HRAF, consult Function and Scope of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., (New Haven: Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, 1959), p. 1.
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George P.Murdock, Outline of Cultural Materials (New Haven : Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, 1950).
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The programming and compiling of the index have been the joint work of Raoul Naroll, presently Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science at Northwestern University and the author. Generous grants by Payson Wild, Dean of Faculties, and the Vogelback Computing Center have facilitated the indexing. The author accepts sole responsibility for the contents of the article. Ford Foundation grants to the Council for Intersocietal Studies at Northwestern University are providing continuing support to the project.
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Donald G. Morrison , "Indexing the Human Relations Area Files," American Behavioral Scientist, VII (June, 1964), 48-50.
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The societies included in the sample are: Rural Irish (ER 06), Lapps (EP 04), Serbs (EF 06).
