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.
- 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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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
Catalogue
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Embracing indigenous knowledge in science and medical teaching / Mariana G. Hewson.
Hewson, Mariana G. A'BDate: [2015]- Books
Indigenous and western medicine in colonial India / Madhuri Sharma.
Sharma, Madhuri.Date: 2012- Books
Women's medicine : a cross-cultural study of indigenous fertility regulation / Lucile F. Newman, editor, with the assistance of James M. Nyce.
Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
Indigenous peoples' food systems : the many dimensions of culture, diversity and environment for nutrition and health / [edited by] Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Bill Erasmus, Dina Spigelski.
Date: 2009- Books
Ancient pathways, ancestral knowledge : ethnobotany and ecological wisdom of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America / Nancy J. Turner.
Turner, Nancy J., 1947-Date: [2014]