ethnology

Maps, text, and illustrations provide information about the origins, distribution, and culture of peoples in various regions of the world.

Examines the life of pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead, discussing her youth and schooling, her studies at Barnard College, her first visit to Samoa in 1925, and her fieldwork techniques. Includes historical photographs.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that examine the history, language, social structure, religion, and cultural traditions of over one thousand ethnic groups in Africa; and includes capsule information on Africa's regions and nations.

Six men on a small raft sail four thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands.

Chronicles the immigrant experience in New York City's five boroughs from the seventeenth century to the present through prints, paintings, photographs, and firsthand accounts from letters, newspapers, and books.

Describes the adventures of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew as they sail across the Pacific on the raft Kon-Tiki in an attempt to prove that the first Polynesian settlers could have come from South America.

A biography of the woman who became one of the world's most respected and foremost anthropologists through her studies of primitive cultures.