Beschreibung:
Walter L. Williams is professor of anthropology, history, and gender studies at the University of Southern California. His books include "The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture" and "Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society."
The authors of these essays are an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists and historians who have combined the research methods of both fields to present a comprehensive study of their subject. Published in 1979, the book takes an ethnohistorical approach and touches on the history, anthropology, and sociology of the South as well as on Native American studies.