Baganda of the Great Lake and Their Kingdom on the Hills of Buganda
On the green and fertile hills that rise above the northern shore of Lake Victoria, the great inland sea at the heart of Africa, lives a people whose kingdom was
Bambara of the Upper Niger and Their Antelope Dance of the Farming Cults
Along the upper Niger, in the savanna heart of Mali, live the largest of the Mande peoples, farmers and warriors who kept the old gods when their kinsmen turned to
Basotho of the Mountain Kingdom and the Nation Moshoeshoe Forged
High in the mountains of southern Africa, where the great escarpment of the Drakensberg rises to the highest peaks south of Kilimanjaro, lives a people whose kingdom was forged in
Beja of the Red Sea Hills and Their Four Thousand Years Between River and Sea
Between the Nile and the Red Sea runs a country of arid hills whose people have watched empires pass for four thousand years. The Beja, camel breeders the pharaohs hired
Belarusians of the Great Forest, a Quiet Slavic Nation of the Borderland
In the green heart of eastern Europe, in a land of deep forests, wide marshes, and slow rivers, lives one of the continent’s quietest and most resilient nations: the Belarusians.
Between the Plains and the Peaks, the Story of the Many Peoples of Nepal
From the birthplace of the Buddha to the summit of Everest, Nepal gathers a hundred peoples and two great faiths into one never-colonized Himalayan nation of Sherpas, Newars, and Gurkhas.
Between Two Worlds, the Story of the Tamang People of the Nepali Hills
One of the largest Tibeto-Burman peoples of Nepal, the Tamang have long lived in the hills ringing Kathmandu, blending Tibetan Buddhism, a tonal language, and the rhythm of the damphu drum.
Blackfoot Confederacy Power on the Northern Plains
Along the northern edge of the Great Plains, where the grasslands rise toward the Rocky Mountains, the Blackfoot built one of the most powerful ways of life on the northern
Blang of the Xishuangbanna Tea Mountains and Their Ancient Trees
In the tea mountains of the far south of Yunnan, in Xishuangbanna near the borders of Burma and Laos, live the Blang, a small mountain people famed as growers of
Bonan of the Yellow River Bend and Their Renowned Knives
By the bend of the Yellow River where Gansu meets Qinghai, in the loess and mountain country of the northwest, lives one of the smallest of all China’s peoples, the
