Introduces eighty-four children from around the world, sharing their homes and families, and celebrating everything they have in common.

Explains some traditions and customs of twenty-six African tribes beginning with the letters from A to Z.

This final segment of the Diary depicts the ceremony known as the "ox of ilbaa," from which Miisia emerges, acknowledged as a man.

Young men are ritually prohibited from eating grain. Several of them steal one of the Laibon's goats and then must make reparations.

"This title introduces readers to the Seminole people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Publisher.

Retracing Rockefeller's steps, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.

"This slim volume, published in the same series as Foucault's Language, Madness, and Desire. It brings together two lectures that Lévi-Strauss gave on the French essayist Montaigne: one given in 1937 and the second in 1992"--

The carved pillars of the matrilineal Amis tribe's famed ancestral house recount tribal legends such as The Great Flood and The Glowing Girl, and are home to the ancestral spirits of the Amis. The pillars, however, were removed from the village for exhibition in Taiwan's Institute of Ethnology Museum after a typhoon toppled the house 40 years ago. This film follows a group of young Amis who seek to restore their people's connection with their ancestors....