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.
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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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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
Catalogue
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South American Indians preparing an arrow poison of curare.
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South American Indians between traditional and modern health services in rural Ecuador / Axel Kroeger.
Kroeger, Axel.Date: 1982- Books
Folk literature of the Mataco Indians / Johannes Wilbert and Karin Simoneau, editors ; introduction by Niels Fock ; contributing authors, Domenico Del Campana [and others].
Date: [1982], ©1982- Archives and manuscripts
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18pp manuscript inscribed 'South American Indians'; 8pp photocopied manuscript inscribed 'The indigenous peoples of America'.
Date: c.1965-1979Reference: PP/AEM/E.44Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Books
The role of coca in the history, religion and medicine of South American Indians / Richard T. Martin.
Martin, Richard TDate: 1975