Stories
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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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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
Catalogue
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Nineteenth century American asylums : a history in postcards / Alma Wynelle Deese and Cathy Faye, editors.
Date: 2017
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Indian languages of Mexico and Central America and their geographical distribution / by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton ; accompanied with a linguistic map.
Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910.Date: 1911- Books
Secret judgments of God : Old World disease in colonial Spanish America / edited by Noble David Cook and W. George Lovell.
Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
Guide to the museum, third floor.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.Date: 1924- Books
Indian skeletal material from the central coast of Peru / by Marshall T. Newman. with a synopsis of the archaeology / by Gordon R. Willey.
Newman, Marshall Thornton, 1911-Date: 1947