"indigenous practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English and can be used to refer to practices that are specific to a particular culture or region.
For example, "The indigenous practice of holding a weekly prayer gathering was passed down from generation to generation."
Christianity's legacy is more complex, its relationship with indigenous practice more hybrid, but it has become the faith of just under half the continent".
The goal was to give the ancient and often unsavory ritual "a bright new face that radiated with science and hygiene, health and fitness" — to present it as an indigenous practice that Indians could point to as proof of both their traditional wisdom and their swift modernization.
Worldwide, the profession appeared to be in a truly advanced state, as marked by a new high in indigenous practice, a broad base of authors in this journal, and of cooperation between practitioners of the various nations.
But as Elinor has demonstrated, ham-fisted reforms that attempt to bring the illusion of modernity to the developing world by a naive adoption of Western best-practice laws without the structures that support and enforce those rules often leads to a destruction of indigenous practice that works reasonably well without substituting a functioning and reliable market of impersonal exchange.
More recent policy developments include new legislation which authorises practice nurses and Aboriginal Health Workers to access some Medicare items (e.g. for provision of immunisation and follow up services for Indigenous people after health assessment) [ 28], and introduction of the Indigenous Practice Incentives Program (PIP) to encourage population-based care [ 29].
Missionaries brought the faith to colonial Uganda in the 19th century, and it became a popular alternative to indigenous practices, including witchcraft.
Despite five centuries of Catholicism, indigenous practices in which divorce was common and could be initiated by either women or men lurk not far beneath the surface.
But nowadays, construction companies are avoiding using materials from the local environment and indigenous practices – since they are more costly and labour intensive – and instead are creating concrete structures with glass facades, which are neither visually attractive nor climate-appropriate.
The media seems like a moth to the flames of novel technologies, giving them seemingly disproportionate airtime compared to, say, sustainability options that grow from local, small scale roots that often build on indigenous practices.
First, local herders represent a repository of rich indigenous knowledge essential to sustaining sound rangeland management practices; hence, indigenous practices need to be integrated into modern technologies.
In some cases government agencies have worked with tribes to agree to a fire management program based in these indigenous practices.
