ethnology

An overview of immigration from 1500 to the present.

A brief introduction to the variety of human beings that people the earth. Includes Pygmy tribes of Zaire, Scandanavians, Tuaregs, Mongoloids, Samoans, Aborigines, and many others.

Discusses Minik Wallace, a young Eskimo boy brought to New York in 1897 along with his father, whose skeleton was put on display in the Museum of Natural History; Minik's years as a "specimen"; his displacement both in America and in Greenland upon his return there; Arctic exploration; and early anthropology.

Collection of eighteen global environmental crisis statements from representatives of indigenous peoples of six continents.

Explores ancient African myths and legends; and describes its history, geography, religious beliefs, government, and customs.

Anthropologist Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, shares photographs and memories from throughout his twenty-five years of exploration in the Canadian Arctic, the North African deserts, the mountains of Tibet, and other remote corners of the world.

A brief biography of the well-known anthropologist concentrating on her first important studies in Samoa in the mid-1920's.

Examines the life of the pioneer anthropologist who popularized the field and used her ideas to promote world unity and peace.

Presents a comprehensive history of the early medieval civilizations in West Africa beginning around 1200 AD and including the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires, and describes their culture, religious practices, people, and way of life.