2006-11-01 14:39:12 · 4 answers · asked by GreenLeaf 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
On a genetic basis, there is only one race -- human. However, people differ in terms of physical attributes caused by adaptations to various environmental settings. There are also thousands of different ethnic (cultural) groups.
One excellent source of photographs is National Geographic's, "Peoples of the World," which is available from its national headquarters in Washington, DC.
It features:
Central Asia:
Baluchi
Burusho
Kazakhs
Pashtun
Turkmen
Uzbeks
East Asia:
Ainu
Bai
Dong
Koreans
Mongols
Tibetans
Uygars
Southeast Asia:
Balinese
Dayak
Javanese
Khmer
Minangkabau
Thais
Vietnamese
South Asia:
Bengalis
Nagas
Sinhalese
Tamils
Oceania:
Arrente (also called Aranda[Britain], Arunta[US])
Cape York Peoples
Mardu
Ngarrindjeri
Nyungah
Palawa
Pintubi
Tiwi
Torres Straits Islanders
Warlpiri
Wurundjeri
Yolngu
Melanesia:
Chimbu
Enga
Foi
Marind-Anim
Middle Sepik
Moto
Tannese
Tolai
Trobrianders
Polynesia:
Hawaiians
Maori
Samoans
Tahitians
Tongans
Micronesia:
Chuuk Islanders
Marshalese
Palauans
South America
Amazon and Orinoco Basins:
Amahuaca
Bororo
Campa
Caribs (who Columbus first met)
Desana
Kuikuru
Mundurucu
Nukuk
Saramaka
Shuar (more commonly called Jivaro)
Tapirape
Xikrin
Yanomami
Andes:
Aymara
Kallawaya
Mapuche
Otavalenos
Q'eros
Quechua (formerly Incas)
Central South America
Guarani
Kadiweu
Tupiniamba
Patagonia:
Fuegians
Yamana
Mesoamerica:
Garifuna
Highland Maya
Lowland Maya
Huichol
Mixtec
Nahua
Tarascans
Zapotec
The Caribbean:
Amerindians
East Indians
Euro-Caribbeans
North America
Southeast::
Cherokee
Seminole
Chippewa
Iroquis
Plains:
Blackfeet
Cheyenne
Crow
Lakota Sioux
Mandan
Plateau and Great Basin:
Nez Perce
Northern Piute
Southwest and Far West:
Chiricahua Apache
Hopi
Navajo
Pomo
Tohono O'Odham (Spanish explorers called them Papago)
Northwest Coast:
Kwakiutl
Tlingit
Northern Europe:
Cornish
Faroese
Finns
Icelanders
Irish
Northern Islanders
Sami
Scandinavians
Scots
Welsh
Western Europe:
Basques
Bretons
Catalans
Dutch
Frisians
Southern Europe:
Albanians
Cretans
Sicilians
Central Europe:
Bosnian Muslims
Croats
Czechs
Magyars
Serbs
Slovaks
Slovenes
Eastern Europe:
Jews
Roma
Russians
Ukrainians
West Africa:
Asante
Bambara
Dogon
Fang
Hausa
Wolof
Yoruba
Central Africa:
Efe
Kongo
Mangetu
Tutsi
Hutu
East Africa:
Amhara
Beta Israel
Kikuyu
Malagasy
Masai
Somali
Swahili
Southern Africa:
Afrikaners
San
Shona
Tswana
Zulu
North Africa:
Arabs
Berbers
Copts
Middle East:
Druze
Jews
Kurds
Maronites
Persians
Qashqai
Turks
Zoroastrians
Arctic:
Alaskan Eskimos
Aleut
Chukchi
Koryak
Evenk
Inuit
Nenets
Yakut
Yukaghir
......and this is only a sampling.
2006-11-03 07:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by Goethe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
National Geographic Society
Up With People - Singing Group
2006-11-03 07:51:55 · answer #2 · answered by spyblitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newspapers.
2006-11-01 22:45:52 · answer #3 · answered by DrB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can try google and search images of whatever race you want!
2006-11-01 22:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by mrs. jung yunho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋