Proverbs according to Ruggles

What Proverbs meant to its original audience—and what it means to Christians today On one hand, Proverbs is perfectly straightforward—a collection of short statements on ...

JAMAICAN CREOLE, like many other contact languages, has taken its ultimate shape through the course of multi-lingual and multi-cultural influences. From the perspective of contact ...

African American culture draws upon a rich body of traditions from Africa, Latin America, and the South, and folklore is fundamental to the African American heritage. The first wor...

This is the first collection of quotations from Hispanics who have made their mark on the world. Included are more than 1,000 quotations from over 200 notable Hispanics—writers, po...

This chapter uses the cuckold, the man whose wife is unfaithful, to explore connections between gender and the important theme of inversion in early modern popular culture. The cuc...

Culture and Customs of Russiais a splendid introduction to the largest country in the world. This timely volume gives the scope of the country from earliest history through the bre...