Stories
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Dictionary of American Indians North of Mexico.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology.Date: 1903- Archives and manuscripts
Prints of North American Indians
Date: 1897Reference: GALTON/2/9/6/6/1/7Part of: Baby Fingerprints- Books
Plant hypnotics among the North American Indians / William A. Emboden, Jr.
Emboden, William A., Jr.Date: 1976- Books
North American Indians of the plains / by Clark Wissler.
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947.Date: 1912- Digital Images
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Manufacture of Stone implements, North American Indians.