cross-cultural studies

Explores both the historic and contemporary manifestations of shamanism, discussing visions, initiation rites, shamanic chants, shamanism and mental health, the shamanic use of plants, and the political and social background of the shaman's work.

Describes a variety of holidays, festivals, and feasts that are celebrated around the world and throughout time.

Examines the different languages, national dress, and social and cultural activities of children from various countries of the world.

A comparative study of the revolutions that transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds during the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, describing the factors that destabilized the old regimes, the techniques of successful popular mobilization, and the roles played by enslaved Africans and Native Americans.

Photographs and text profile women from around the world and throughout time engaged in rituals, both ancient and modern, of community, family, sisterhood, and self.

Describes what certain gestures mean in different countries and explains when and how to use them and avoid them.

Collection of nine folk-tales from around the world, each with an introduction discussing the theme, origin, and background of the story.

A collection of thirteen opposing essays discussing excessive homework, academic pressure, and educational reform.

Journalist Ethan Watters argues that Western concepts of mental illness, from clinical depression to anorexia and schizophrenia, have impacted cultures around the world, covering American culture's "export" of mental health treatments and classifications, and theories of the human psyche, into places such as Hong Kong, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka.