Publisher description: James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil iden…
For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War'from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom'from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzl…
"In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair, with officers and soldiers alike taking to the fray with phrases like "death or glory" on their tongues and in their hearts. Acts of astonishing bravery, many of them by doctors, women, and children, were commonpla…
Each of the nine essays in this volume examines child-rearing practices and child maltreatment in the context of a culture very different from our own. There is no universal standard for optimal child rearing, nor for child abuse and neglect. Seeking culturally appropriate defin…