Folk music concerts represent events where traditional, indigenous music is performed live. Such music, passed down through generations, often tells stories of a people, depicts their daily life or beliefs, and is a significant part of various cultures around the world, from Appalachian Mountain mus...
The agricultural operations of the past depended greatly on the intuition and experience of the family unit concerning when to plant, how to recognize a disease in the herd, and the best time to harvest. This information was passed from generation to generation. Decisions are now based on resea...
North American ecosystems have been greatly affected by invasive species over the last two centuries. During the 19th and 20th centuries theGreat Lakesregion was altered by thesealamprey(Petromyzon marinus), a primitivefishindigenous to the coastal waters of the North Atlantic and westernMediterranean ...
From the gamut of games played by the upper and middle classes, the industrial workers of Europe and Latin America, like the indigenous population of Africa, appropriated football as their own. early baseball gameAn early baseball game at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1859; ...
From the gamut of games played by the upper and middle classes, the industrial workers of Europe and Latin America, like the indigenous population of Africa, appropriated football as their own. early baseball gameAn early baseball game at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1859; ...
It is powerful enough to hold the sex urge in check and achieve premarital chastity and even voluntary vows of celibacy for life. It can cause a person to die of hunger, though nourishment is available, because some foods are branded unclean by the culture. And it can cause a person to ...
Culture, behaviour peculiar to Homo sapiens, together with material objects used as an integral part of this behaviour. Thus, culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, and ceremonie
the aspects of contemporary systems and structures that have created social, political, and economic inequities and injustice for Black, Indigenous, Hispanic (Latinx), and Asian Americans are increasingly hidden—ingrained in the standard operating procedures of institutions and eschewing racial terminology...
Only a few kinds of drums, none indigenous, were known to antiquity. The frame drum came from Mesopotamia at an early date. The barrel drum was possibly known in Hellenistic times, for it appears in the Greco-Indian culture of Kushan. A shallow drum is depicted on a Greco-Scythian metal...
of easternNorth America. Thesun pitchers, also known as marsh pitcher plants (genusHeliamphora), are native to a limited region inSouth Americaand consist of about 23 species. Thecobra plant(Darlingtonia californica) is the only member of its genus and isindigenousto northernCaliforniaand southern...