“Ye seed of Israel’s chosen race,” “The race that long in darkness pined,” “To heal and save a undone,” “Sanctify ransomed race” are few examples many references to “race” exist English-language hymnody. Throughout the nineteenth-century, hymns containing lines such as these, were exported from Britain into mission fields where translators had find new ways conceptualize notions and, effect, cr...

THIS paper is concerned with a glimpse into the wealth of ancient Indian medical literature. A small sampling of the general knowledge and thoughts of these ancients will be presented along with an attempt to place their leading texts into some historical perspective. Following this, emphasis will be placed on some of the writings of what may be called 'Ancient Indian Dermatology'. Most modern ...

In this article I explore the possibility of a dialogue between cultural studies and cognitive science by proposing a ‘‘cognitive’’ reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s  book Hymns in Prose for Children. Literary critics have pointed out that the tacitly catechistic mode of Barbauld’s Hymns implicates it in the eighteenth-century ideological project of socializing children, particularly thos...