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From healing wounds to rituals to atone adultery: how Indigenous plants and their names in Alor, Indonesia, unlock a treasure trove of medical and cultural secrets.
Two main groups of followers are fighting over the real meaning of ‘tantra’. But in fact they have a lot to learn from one another.
New research on Ilorin in Nigeria provides insights into regional socio-political developments prior to the 19th century.
Many ‘myths’ are authentic memories of human pasts, told by people who passed down precise accounts of their history.
European colonists chronicled their version of how Indigenous peoples lived with horses. New collaborative research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.
Tracing extinctions that happened centuries ago is difficult. But in New Zealand, the last place to be settled some 750 years ago, ancestral Māori oral traditions retain clues about lost species.
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