Sentence examples for ancestral practice from inspiring English sources

The government says that the convention contravenes the Bolivian constitution, which states that the country is obliged to preserve and protect the chewing of coca leaves as a cultural heritage and ancestral practice.

The first story is about Abraham's father Azar, who could not conceive of a world beyond ancestral practice and actively thwarted his son's religious mission.

In primates, the combination of opposing thumbs, short fingernails (rather than claws) and long, inward-closing fingers is a relict of the ancestral practice of gripping branches, and has, in part, allowed some species to develop brachiation (swinging by the arms from tree limb to tree limb) as a significant means of locomotion.

The open woodland therefore comprises a number of plant profiles, running from the virtually completely closed forest with a thin grass cover to tree savanna or shrub savanna and whose flora has been, thanks to the ancestral practice of burning, reduced to a very small number of species which have become fairly fire-tolerant.

Shepherds' extreme vulnerability to bad weather conditions, diseases and other adversities such as theft, wars or looting led to the creation of a whole protection system, based on ancestral practices and rituals, to safeguard them from the hazards they were exposed to in their jobs.

Their ancestral practices are increasingly threatened as access to lands and waters diminishes.

Spirituality can be sought not only through traditional organized cultural and ancestral practices, but also through ecological (environmental) spirituality.

The Guambía communities requested a program that would recognize and value their own culture, including their language, history and ancestral practices.

The United Nations General Assembly has therefore declared 2013 as the "International Year of Quinoa", in recognition of ancestral practices of the Andean people, who have managed to preserve quinoa in its natural state as food for present and future generations, through ancestral practices of living in harmony with nature.

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the 'International Year of Quinoa', in recognition of ancestral practices of the Andean people, who have managed to preserve quinoa in its natural state as food for both present and future generations.

Despite recent changes, this area still retains characteristic features of traditional landscapes such as the spatial pattern of field systems and ancestral cultural practices (e.g. extensive grazing of the scrubland).