In the wide savannas and gallery forests of the Mato Grosso in central Brazil live the Bororo, a people whose villages once stretched across a vast stretch of the cerrado

In the rugged heart of the Balkans, among mountains, river valleys, and old Ottoman towns, live the Bosniaks, a South Slavic people set apart from their neighbors above all by

Across the karst country of southern Guizhou, where limestone hills rise in sharp cones above green valleys, live the Bouyei, a settled people of the water and the rice and

On a granite peninsula reaching into the Atlantic at the northwestern edge of France live the Bretons, a Celtic people unlike their Latin neighbors. Descended from Britons who crossed the

The Bribri are the largest Indigenous people of Costa Rica, a Chibchan-speaking nation whose homeland in the rugged Talamanca mountains has sheltered them from full outside conquest for centuries. Their

Around a beautiful mountain lake in Yunnan, the Bai built the kingdoms of Nanzhao and Dali, a refined civilization of whitewashed towns, famous tie-dye, and the symbolic three-course tea.

An ancient people of the southwestern mountains, the Yi kept their own written script and a learned priesthood, and light up each summer with the fire of the Torch Festival.

On the northeastern shoulder of the Iberian Peninsula, along the Mediterranean between the Pyrenees and the sea, live the Catalans, a Romance people with a language, a history, and a

Halfway between Japan and New Guinea, where the Pacific plunges into its deepest trench, a chain of green islands has been home to the same people for four thousand years.

Across the vast grasslands of the Great Plains, the Cheyenne built one of the most storied ways of life in Native North America, a world of the bison hunt, the