Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook

This book aims to provide readers with an easy‐to‐use, accurate, up‐to‐date guide to ethnic groups in the contemporary world. At a time when ethnic identity, ethnic relations, ethnic conflict and immigration are increasingly important in current affairs, we need all the up‐to‐date easy‐to‐use guides we can get.

The book is divided into four parts: Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas. Each part contains a nation‐by‐nation description for that region. An introduction, a bibliography and maps are provided at the beginning of each regional part. The country profiles, which are arranged alphabetically, start with a brief account listing...