There are reports that the National House of Traditional Leaders, which advises the government on traditional customs of ethnic groups, has called for parliament to restrict gay and lesbian rights.
The mourning customs of another group of New Guinea aborigines, the Gimi, also involved funerary cannibalism.
Set in the tough, bleak world of France's suburban housing projects, this movie immerses itself in the speech and customs of a group of young people, mainly the children of Arab immigrants, who are involved in a class production of Marivaux's classic comedy "L'Esquive".
Quickly learning the language and customs of this group of some 200,000 men, Harrison successfully treated many bilharzia, catarrh and tuberculosis cases, significantly reducing the number of sick members of the Corps during the winter of 1917 18.
In early May, the National House of Traditional Leaders — formed after the end of apartheid to advise the government on the interests and customs of various ethnic groups — asked Parliament to repeal the clause protecting citizens from discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation.
The British chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant, The Fat Duck, in Berkshire, is a case in point, with specially designed vials for tasting and an extraordinary level of attention to detail Ethnography: the scientific study of the customs of individuals or groups, as part of the discipline of anthropology.
With growing concerns over national security, and the increased threat of those wishing to divide us, there has been recent public discussion about the future of our immigration program, and whether the values and customs of some migrant groups have a place in the Australian way of life.
The "displacement scenario" is more likely rooted in the older customs of many Plains groups to withdraw into the foothills during headhunting season or when threatened by a neighboring village as observed by the Dutch during their punitive campaign of Mattou in 1636 when the bulk of the village retreated to Tevoraan.
With any creative project in which a group of privileged Westerners look to recount the tales and customs of an indigenous group, there is a risk of caricature, even amiable racism.
The finding in literature that it is important to use a cultural approach to prevention, appropriate for norms and customs of the ethnic group, also applies to overweight and obesity behaviour [ 15, 28, 29].
