How does a 21st-century boy reach manhood? In some cultures the rite of passage is clear. In others, not so much.

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela's casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body's spirit: The state funeral for South Africa's ...

PANTAN, India (AP) — The Rabha tribal community in India’s northeastern state of Assam celebrates the Baikho festival each year, performing traditional rituals to please a deity of wealth and ask for ...

Out of the Santa Marta Mountains, whose 19,000-ft. snow peaks are a breathtaking sight to tourists on Caribbean cruise ships, an Austrian-born anthropologist brought news of an Indian tribe so cut off ...