cross-cultural studies

Through revealing texts and an wirde range of dramatic illustrations, a team of experts discusses the disparate traditions surround masks in eight principal areas: Africa, Oceania, Latin America, the Pacific Northwest, Japan, classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, and Europe.

Photographs and text describe schools in various places around the world, the subjects the students study, the games they play at recess, what they wear to school, and the foods they eat.

A collection of thirteen controversial essays that debate the topic of AIDS addressing issues such as untested drugs, prevention strategies, and mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Compilation of 204 traditional games played by children in 137 countries and cultures, with ideas and lesson plans for using the games in the classroom and library.

Offering a panoramic view of opinions selected from a diverse range of international sources, this book traces controversies on free speech, media freedom, and the right to due process.

Examines the role of women in political systems around the world, discussing how women have equal representation in some countries while remaining greatly underrepresented in others, and addresses both transnational and national gender-related political issues.

Provides descriptions and rules for more than three hundred games and sports from various countries and cultures around the world, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Explores the ways in which people from a variety of cultures carry their young ones, and describes what children see and learn as they are carried.

Presents forty tales from various cultures, including Cameroon, Egypt, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, depicting trickster figures such as Coyote, Anansi, and Raven.

A collection of international folktales about storytelling and the role of stories in transmitting information, history, and values.