Atlas Narodov Mira (Atlas of the Peoples of the World)

Summary

John E. Chappell Jr. reviews Atlas of the Peoples of the World (1964), edited by S. I. Bruk and V. S. Apenchenko, praising its extensive coverage of global ethnic and linguistic distributions. The atlas includes population tables, density maps, and explanatory text. The reviewer identifies inconsistent treatment of peoples largely classified by language, omissions of some ethnic groups, urban minorities, and Urdu, suspiciously exact alignments between certain linguistic and political boundaries, and inadequate documentation of compilation sources.