Covers the arts, culture, community, education, family, gender, marriage, occupation, and work of more than twenty national-origin groups, both historically and in contemporary American society. Also covers pan–Asian American issues, including longer thematic essays and narrower topical entries on identity, prejudice, and popular culture.

Third edition. Extensive reference encylopedia with over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Covers history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, and more of cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa.

A survey of clothing, costume and fashion. Covers the origins of clothing and body adornment, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress, as well as representative costumes from a range of historical eras.

A comprehensive reference guide to concepts in semiotics, sign theory, and cultural studies. Three hundred entries by leading scholars in a variety of fields—from anthropology and literary theory to linguistics and philosophy—survey the study of signs and symbols in human culture. These articles cover key concepts, theories, theorists, schools of thought, and issues in communications, cognition, and cultural theory.

Introduces food culture from numerous countries and cultures around the world, including some from remote and unexpected peoples and places.

Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more.

Covers the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the post-colonial era.