WHEN the commencement of Mr. Buckle's great “Introduction” appeared, some fourteen years ago, no small controversy arose as to the possibility of constructing a Science of History. On the one hand it ...

For old shamans in northeast China, drums made from the skin of large fish are not just musical instruments. As researcher Liu Guiteng finds out, drums, or wente as they are known among the locals, ...

Roger Sandall, a retired New Zealand lecturer in anthropology, has launched a broadside against the modern version of the idea of the noble savage. The basic thesis can be found in a three page ...

[The following piece, though never previously attributed to Wells, is identifiable as his on grounds of style and content. Under the same heading as above, it appeared in the Saturday Review, 79 (June ...

Is anyone else wondering what the students and the administration of Princeton are thinking with their "band" inflicting silliness and missteps on a decent student body at the Citadel? Your Sept. 24 ...