This 'culture of introverts' prefers to have conversations in song

From venerating gods to carrying cakes, members of China’s Bai ethnic minority “can only say what’s on our mind when we’re singing.”

Writer and National Geographic Society Explorer Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile storytelling odyssey across the world in the footsteps of our human forebears. He sends this dispatch from China.