"Acts of Giving examines the issues surrounding donation - the giving of property, usually landed property - in northern 'Christian' Spain in the tenth century. The tenth century is particularly significant as the time when written texts became very plentiful, thereby allowing u…
"The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflec…
"William Beynon's notebooks are among the most significant written records of Northwest coast potlatching and are an unsurpassed resource documenting these activities among the Gitksan. This rare, first-hand, ethnographic account of a potlatch reveals the wonderful complexities …