Book Description
Identifies more than two thousand ethnic groups around the world, and discusses each group's culture, social and economic conditions, and politics
Author : Amiram Gonen
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780805022568
Identifies more than two thousand ethnic groups around the world, and discusses each group's culture, social and economic conditions, and politics
Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781426202384
From the foremost authority on history and civilization comes the definitive guide to world cultures--showcasing human diversity in all its vast and startling richness. 235 color photographs and 37 maps.
Author : Steven L. Danver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1317464001
This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.
Author : Mirella Ferrera
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788854402201
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 the world are the creators of such diverse civilizations that even researchers have not yet fully mapped them. To document the beauty and richness of this heritage and to celebrate the variety of human types and cultures, the volume Peoples of the World presents a narrative supported by splendid photographs to describe the Earth's most anthropologically interesting ethnic groups. They range from the Maori to the Rom, from the Maasai to the Inuit, demonstrating the diversity of humankind.
Author : David J. Meltzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520943155
More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere's oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.
Author : Catherine Herbert Howell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1426217080
"A revised and updated edition of National Geographic book of peoples of the world, including all-new material"--Cover.
Author : Paul Hattaway
Publisher : William Carey Library
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9780878083619
In the past 20 years, Christians around the world have launched initiatives to reach Muslims, Communists, Hindus and other major unreached people groups but the Buddhist world has largely been overlooked. Hundreds of millions of Buddhists continue to live and die without any exposure to the Gospel. In Peoples of the Buddhist World, researcher and author Paul Hattaway graphically presents prayer profiles of more than 200 Buddhist people groups around the world, beautifully illustrated with color pictures throughout. In addition, experts have contributed articles on various aspects of Buddhism, helping the reader to learn, pray and work until that day when "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11:15).--From publisher's description.
Author : Chris Harman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1786630818
Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn) From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.” In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. A vital corrective to traditional history, A People's History of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.
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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Andorra
ISBN : 9780761479048
Presents a thirteen-volume reference guide to the geography, history, economy, government, culture and daily life of countries in Europe.
Author : Gillian Doherty
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9780746067109
An illustrated introduction to ethnology.