Their stunning new two-volume book set, “ African Twilight: The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of the African Continent ” (Rizzoli), captures these vivid and fleeting rites.

The scent of burning copal filled the air as Aztec dancers, bedecked in feathered headdresses and wearing shell-embellished ankle cuffs, blessed an intersection bordering Little Village and North L… ...

The South African Archaeological Bulletin is the longest established archaeological journal in sub-Saharan Africa, it contains the cutting edge of research on southern Africa. Appearing twice a year, ...

Claude Levi-Strauss, a painter's son, not only reshaped the nature of how anthropologists do their work: He changed the world's perception of so-called "primitive" tribes in Asia, Africa and America.