Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Iran
Until mass emigration began in 1948, Jews constituted one of the largest and longest-settled non-Muslim populations in Iran. Dispersed in every city and town in the country, Iranian Jews were almost always a minority except in a few...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Molokans
Explore the Molokans on this website that contains some brief information about their culture both in Russia and the United States.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ambae
Learn about the culture of the people of Ambai Island. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ajie
Learn about the culture of the Ajie speaking people of New Caledonia. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Abelam
Learn about the culture of the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Belau
Learn about the culture of the Belau islands of Micronesia. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Bau
Learn about the culture of the Bau people of Fiji. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Banaro
Learn about the culture of the Banaro people of Papua New Guinea. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Asmat
Learn about the culture of the Asmat people of New Guinea. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Aranda
Learn about the culture of the Aranda speakers of central Australia. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Anuta
Learn about the volcanic island of Anuta. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Choiseul Island
Learn about the culture of Choiseul Island of the Soloman Islands. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Chimbu
Learn about the culture of the Chimbu people of Papua New Guinea. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Chamorros
Learn about the culture of the Chamorros people of Guam. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Chambri
Learn about the culture of the Chambri people of Papua New Guinea. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Boazi
Learn about the culture of the Boazi speaking people of New Guinea. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Bikini
Learn about the culture of Bikini Island in the Bikini Atoll. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Fipa
The Fipa are a Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Tanzania in East-Central Africa. The name "Fipa" appears to have been bestowed on them by nineteenth-century traders and means "people of the escarpment." It was later adopted by...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Fali
The Fali belong to the vast paleonegritic group of people who are sometimes designated "Kirdi" (pagans), as opposed to the Islamized Peul or Fulbe, with whom they share the northern part of Cameroon. The Fali are farmers and...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Falasha
The Falasha are a northern Ethiopian highland population of Jewish belief. They are one of the dozens of small ethnic minorities in Ethiopia and have been recognized as a "nationality" in the Ethiopian constitution of 1986. More than...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Edo
"Edo" is the name that the people of the Benin Kingdom give to themselves, their language, and their capital city and kingdom. Renowned for their art of brass and ivory and for their complex political organization, the Edo Kingdom of...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Betsileo
The Betsileo (Bts) are one of approximately twenty "ethnies," or ethnic units, into which Madagascar divides its population. The Betsileo began to use that term for themselves after their conquest by the Merina in the nineteenth century....
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Berbers of Morocco
"Berber" refers to any native speaker of a dialect of the Berber language, although many Arabic speakers in North Africa are also Berber by descent, even if they have lost the language. Especially in Morocco, "Imazighen" is today the...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Circassians
The Circassians are a people indigenous to the northwestern Caucasus who are also found today as minority communities in four Middle Eastern countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. They call themselves "Adyge," the term...