Iraq did not, however, give birth to an indigenous form of self-government.
Manipur has given birth to an indigenous form of classical dance known as manipuri.
For centuries before that, villagers here would gather to sing "zajal" — an indigenous form of poetry that is partly improvisatory, a kind of ancient Levantine rap.
Lee was trying to understand this indigenous form of anorexia and, at the same time, figure out why the disease remained so rare.
A3 Young Indians Take to Tobacco Gutka, an indigenous form of smokeless tobacco, is as portable as chewing gum and sometimes as sweet as candy, luring many Indians, including children, into addiction.
Most patients, some 300 a day, come for outpatient treatment, a monthly supply of Siddha -- an indigenous form of medicine developed in Tamil Nadu whose efficacy in fighting H.I.V.-related infection has yet to be clinically proved.
IN 1969 a young Iranian actor named Mohammad Ghaffari took the British director Peter Brook to the village of Neyshabur in northeastern Iran to watch a performance of "Ta'ziyeh," an indigenous form of Persian music-theater.
He realized there might be a market for this indigenous form of black expression, and he, Mr. Ivey and Mr. Dweck, who is an entertainment lawyer, formed a company called Two Brothers and a White Guy.
To musicians with or without the cosmic baggage, the fascination lies in the intricately layered pulse and shimmer of the gamelan, the indigenous form of orchestral ensemble, dominated by percussion and associated for centuries with Balinese ritual and devotion.
Nevertheless, St Lucia's love of country is not uncontroversial: there are suggestions that it's a sad example of cultural imperialism; that its popularity is a relic of the island's colonial past, when St Lucia's traditional culture was denigrated; that its popularity has prevented the island from coming up with its own indigenous form of pop to rival reggae or soca.
The Chan School (Chan zong, 禪宗) is an indigenous form of Chinese Buddhism that developed beginning in the sixth century CE and subsequently spread to the rest of East Asia (Japanese: Zen; Korean: Sôn; Vietnamese; Thiền).
