In December, I journeyed to southwest Ethiopia to photograph the rarely seen Surma tribe. For eight days, thanks to Oryx Worldwide Photographic Expeditions, I was granted unprecedented access to this ...

Papen said: "What we claim to call beautiful in our Western world isn’t quite the same how the Surma tribe pursues beauty. "Both Surma men and woman pierce their ears, some woman stretch their lower ...

Through a study of the ceremonial stick-dueling of the Surma people of southern Ethiopia, this article explores the sociocultural context of ritual violence in a small-scale agropastoralist society ...

There’s no denying that advancements made in technology have a pervasive influence on nearly every facet of modern-day living. But, that notwithstanding, there still exists sections of the global ...

With fewer than two thousand members, the Karo are one of the smallest tribes living along the Omo. They support themselves with fishing and sorghum farming, and by trading with the Hamar and the ...