This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century.

Early childhood sexuality, puberty and adolescence.

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.

This book, a sober, deeply introspective, and quietly thrilling meditation on the flow of time and space and the place of objects within a larger continuum, adumbrates so many of the critical and theoretical concerns of the late twentieth ...

Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.

When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues on today.

Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups.

The book includes an earlier discovered manuscript on the philosophy of language, Saussure's own notes for lectures, and a comprehensive bibliography of major work on Saussure from 1970 to 2004.

Today, with the Arab world facing profound social and political challenges, it constitutesan essential introduction to the Arabs and their history.

Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous ...