A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated one-of-a-kind volume capturing the traditions and ways of life of remote ethnic groups around the globe--their customs, their religions and livelihoods--is compiled by world-renowned anthropologists and writers.

At head of title: National Geographic.

Introduction : Ethnicity and culture / David Maybury-Lewis -- Asia / Patrick Booz -- Oceania / Ian Mcintosh, Eugene Ogan, and James F. Weiner -- South America / Brian Fagan -- Mesoamerica & the Caribbean / Philip Scher and George Stuart -- North America / Trudy Griffin-Pierce -- Europe / Catherine Herbert Howell and Keith and Elisabeth Ward -- Sub-Saharan Africa / Roy Richard Grinker and Philip Scher -- North Africa & the Middle East / Beebe Bahrami -- Arctic / Robert Lee Humphrey -- Afterword : Cultures in crisis / Wade Davis -- Ethnic groups of the world.