Ampa AMPA - Amazónicos por la Amazonía Page 2. Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia. A Matsés shaman named Cesar.
Photo courtesy of Acaté. In one of the great tragedies of our age, indigenous traditions, stories, cultures and knowledge are winking out across the world. Whole languages and mythologies are vanishing, and in some cases even entire indigenous groups are falling into extinction. This is what makes the news that a tribe in the Amazon—the Matsés peoples of Brazil and Peru—have created a 500-page encyclopedia of their traditional medicine all the more remarkable.
The encyclopedia, compiled by five shamans with assistance from conservation group Acaté, details every plant used by Matsés medicine to cure a massive variety of ailments. “The [Matsés Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia] marks the first time shamans of an Amazonian tribe have created a full and complete transcription of their medicinal knowledge written in their own language and words,” Christopher Herndon, president and co-founder of Acaté, told Mongabay in an interview (in full below). Matsés village. Documentary - Amazing Marriage Customs - China Anthropology 101 - English narration w Chinese subs. The Legend of the Hundred Birds Costume - China culture. Hundred Birds Costume is a well-told story in the folk life of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, most typical of the Baiyue ethnic minority group.
The story reflected the happiness and sorrow of people in the Zhuang autonomous region, their fighting against the oppressors and their wish for beautiful life through the depiction of the love between two unyielding young lovers. Early in the Song Dynasty, the story of Hundred Birds Costume was quite popular among the people of Zhuang minority in Xiaoyi Township, Henxian County of Guangxi Province and its surrounding areas. It is handed down from generation to generation and favored by the Zhuang people, enjoying a long history. Hundred Birds Costume is a folklore story full of fantastic myth among people of Zhuang ethnic minority in Xiaoyi Town, Henxian County. It has been continuously enriched with the development of the history. As the story goes, there was a young man named Zhang Yayuan who was born in a poor family.
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For the study of human origins, see Anthropogeny. A special set of land rights in accordance with international law have been set forth by international organizations such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.[2] The United Nations has issued a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to guide member-state national policies to collective rights of indigenous people—such as culture, identity, language, and access to employment, health, education, and natural resources. Estimates put the total population of indigenous peoples from 220 million to 350 million.[3] A defining characteristic for an indigenous group is that it has preserved traditional ways of living, such as present or historical reliance upon subsistence-based production (based on pastoral, horticultural and/or hunting and gathering techniques), and a predominantly non-urbanized society.
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