One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two reg

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Following a detailed introduction to noun catego

In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran --a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian o

The Enlightenment promised humanity a bright future of emancipation which never actuallymaterialized. Instead, our social order is still based on gender inequal

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to