Stories
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
Catalogue
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Indigenous and western medicine in colonial India / Madhuri Sharma.
Sharma, Madhuri.Date: 2012- Books
Taking medicine : women's healing work and colonial contact in southern Alberta, 1880-1930 / Kristin Burnett.
Burnett, Kristin, 1974-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Contesting colonial authority : medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India / edited by Poonam Bala.
Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
A medical history of skin : scratching the surface / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.
Date: 2013- Digital Images
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Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa