Arranged alphabetically by country and using a standard entry format for easy comparison, this volume provides an overview of each country's shared values, behaviors, and cultural variations.
Arranged alphabetically by country and using a standard entry format for easy comparison, this volume provides an overview of each country's shared values, behaviors, and cultural variations.
Arranged alphabetically by country and using a standard entry format for easy comparison, this volume provides an overview of each country's shared values, behaviors, and cultural variations.
Examines the environmental factors that contributed to the history of human life. Discusses the development of human societies on different continents and how they were affected by domestication of wild plants and animals. Reviews localized origins of farming, herding, and food production.
Provides an overview of the empires of medieval West Africa, including Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, discussing significant people, places, ideas, and events, and examining their development and influence on Islam.
Arranges countries around the world alphabetically, subdivides these countries into 250 culture groups, and provides information about the ethnology and human geography of each group.
Relates the story of Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl's efforts to prove that Polynesians were of Incan descent by building and successfully sailing from Peru to French Polynesia a raft he made by using materials and processes available to the ancient Incas.
This reference book provides readers with essential facts about countries, cultures, and people in a learned, thoughtful, and engaging way, including big-picture facts such as the difference between a country and a nation.
