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Challenges and Strategies of Ethnomedicinal Practices in Tribal India
By: PRIYANKA – The ethno-medical practices of tribal India represent a rich heritage of healing and cultural knowledge. To ensure that these practices are preserved and revitalized, the challenges they face must be addressed. We can preserve and strengthen the invaluable contributions of tribal ethno-medicine to health and well-being by documenting traditional knowledge, providing education…
Healing and the land: cultural perspectives on health and environment. The case of Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal, Australia, burning, colonization, Conservation, culture, Environment, Europeans, fire, health, humans, Indigenous, land, Nature, New South Wales, totemism, Victoria, wellbeing, WesternBy: CHIARA TELLARINI – In this article, it is questioned whether and how cultural values and ideas play a role in influencing the ways in which we, as humans, behave towards nature, and how then we end up shaping it differently; this is done by bringing at first the instance of “Western” conceptions on the…