Sentence examples for indigenous custom from inspiring English sources

The constitution guarantees that land cannot be alienated from its "indigenous custom owners," or traditional owners, and their descendants.

The secret ingredient of the show is the when-in-Rome avidity with which Bourdain partakes of indigenous custom and cuisine, whether he is pounding vodka before plunging into a frozen river outside St . Petersburgor spearing a fatted swine as the guest of honor at a jungle longhouse in Borneo.

Chewing coca would be a strong signal the pope appreciated Bolivia's indigenous values, Cardenas said, referring to the widespread indigenous custom of chewing the leaves that are a mild stimulant, and the major ingredient of cocaine.

For anthropologists who monitor the fragility of indigenous customs, such quietude must have been disquieting.

The Hindu law system began with the Vedas and contemporary indigenous customs (i.e., not Indo-European) 3,000 years ago.

THE WEDDING ITSELF WAS typically Syrian Christian, a rite rich in biblical tradition combined with the Hindu and indigenous customs of South India.

South Africa legally recognizes polygamous marriages in line with indigenous African customs; that is how President Jacob Zuma is permitted his three wives.

Kenya's judicial system acknowledges the validity of Islamic law and indigenous African customs in many personal areas such as marriage, divorce, and matters affecting dependents.

Suddenly, she found herself reading article after article about indigenous cultural customs.

Because Rudd knew little of indigenous African customs and languages, Rhodes added Francis Matabele Thompsonon, an employee of his who had for years run the reserves and compounds that housed the black labourers at the diamond fields.

In contrast, several indigenous marriage customs were eschewed by Christian missionaries and later the established Christian congregations in South Africa, which strongly proscribed against polygyny and the levirate (widow inheritance).