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Traditional Knowledge
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In the UAE, the clinking of pestle against mortar signals fresh gahwa, and anyone in the neighborhood is welcome to join.
As an ethnobotanist, Cheryl Morales uses traditional knowledge imbibed during her upbringing on the Fort Belknap Reservation.
Eva Rosich is a trained nurse living in a rural area of Catalonia surrounded by the Pyrenees Mountains.
“When I became a nurse, I realized that while pills and drugs are sometimes very necessary, they are not always so.”
A woman recalls profitable peddling herbal remedies across Catalonia to preserve the traditional lifestyle of their valley.
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