When anthropologist Richard Grinkers daughter was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 1 in every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed, and the media was declaring autism an epidemic. Unstrange Minds documents Grinkers quest across the globe to discover the [...]
The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the[...]
When the author's daughter Isabel was diagnosed with autism in 1994, he knew nothing about it. Driven to learn more about this dramatic increase, he sets forth on a journey around the world and makes a surprising discovery about the autism epidemic that would change both his understanding of the dis[...]