Stories
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
Catalogue
- Books
The manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South America / by the author of Peter Parley's tales [S.G. Goodrich].
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860.Date: 1844- Books
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Prehistoric North America / by W. J. McGee and Cyrus Thomas.
McGee, W J, 1853-1912.Date: [1905], ©1905- Books
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The archaeology of North America / Dean Snow ; photographs by Werner Forman.
Snow, Dean R., 1940-Date: 1976- Books
Guide to the museum, second floor.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.Date: 1922- Books
Guide to the museum, first floor.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.Date: 1922