In the foothill forests of northern Peru, where the Andes descend toward the vast lowland Amazon, live the Shawi, a river and rainforest people of the Loreto region. Known for

Scattered across the hills of southeastern China, through Fujian, Zhejiang, and the neighbouring provinces, live the She, a people of the mountain slopes whose small communities are threaded among the

Along the wide brown loops of the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon lives a people whose art has traveled far beyond the rainforest that shaped it. The Shipibo-Konibo are

High on the great plateau that gives Zimbabwe its shape live the Shona, a people whose ancestors raised the finest stone buildings in sub-Saharan Africa. For more than a thousand

In Ecuador’s Amazonian foothills, the Shuar repelled Inca expansion and destroyed a Spanish colonial city, remaining unconquered for centuries.

Beneath the peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, in the heart of central Europe, live the Slovaks, a West Slavic people whose identity was forged over a thousand years without a

Where the Alps descend toward the Mediterranean and the plains of central Europe meet the Slavic world, live the Slovenes, a South Slavic people whose small homeland packs in mountains,

On the great eastern horn of Africa, the jutting peninsula that reaches out toward Arabia between the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, lives one of the most distinctive

Along the great bend of the Niger River, in the borderland where the Sahel savanna gives way to the sands of the Sahara, there once rose one of the largest

In the tropical valleys of the far southwest, the Dai live a life more Southeast Asian than Chinese, with golden pagodas, bamboo houses, fragrant cuisine, and the joyful Water-Splashing Festival.