From the foremost authority on history and civilization comes the definitive guide to world cultures--showcasing human diversity in all its vast and startling r

This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.

Identifies more than two thousand ethnic groups around the world, and discusses each group's culture, social and economic conditions, and politics

Whether white, black, red or yellow, whatever religion or language, whether city dwellers or country folk, sedentary or nomadic, rich or poor, the peoples of th