Traditional Medicine and herbal medicine serve as a public health safety net. Inhibiting this safety net under the ruse of consumer protection, to further corporate profits, is an act of biopiracy.
NCSU Horticulture Information Leafelet Barclay Poling, Professor and Extension Specialist Connie Fisk, Muscadine Extension Associate Department of Horticultural Science, NCSU (Duplin County) Revised 06/06
From the mountains of Laos to the heartland of America, THE SPLIT HORN: LIFE OF A HMONG SHAMAN IN AMERICA documents a family gripped by dramatic cultural transformation as ancient Hmong traditions collide with American lifestyles.
Last week I wrote about challenging the dominance of English in writing for research and academia. That theme is also relevant to this post, though here it's more about challenging Euro-Western epistemologies and methods than the English language itself. Over the last year I have built a personal library of books about, or relevant to,…
Un "enorme condominio" prehispánico con ofrendas rituales, así como recintos que albergan vestigios de sacrificios humanos que se remiten a la época del emperador mexica Moctezuma I, fueron descubiertos seis metros bajo tierra frente al Templo Mayor, principal centro ceremonial de la otrora gran Tenochtitlán.