Sentence examples for ancestral practices from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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).

Moreover, observed ancestral cultural practices, such as extensive grazing in scrubland areas, may be promoted as strategies for helping the sustainability of cultural landscapes in the study area and in other areas with similar characteristics.

We attempt to reconstruct ancestral marriage practices using hunter-gatherer phylogenies based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.

Indian Canyon allows Natives to reclaim their heritage and implement their ancestral beliefs and practices into their lives.