Tapping local roots for medicines

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Project Unima used the ethnophamacological approach and worked with the Caboclo community to establish the medicinal value of four plants which the community uses frequently. Such an approach speeds up the process of botanical research in the rainforest of the Amazon delta because knowledge acquired over ages is available. Project Unima has established the scientific validity of native medicine and has paved the way for similar research which can record details which the Amerindian communities are losing because of the intrusion of Western medicine.

Research, Discovery and exploration, South American native peoples, Native South Americans, Medicinal plants, Traditional medicine, Native American medicine, Medicine, Primitive

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Pandora's Cubist box

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The daughter of Vincenc Kramar, a Czech collector who helped Prague's National Gallery amass its impressive collection of Cubist works, is suing the museum under a law that provides for return of confiscated art. The Gallery contends that the paintings were fairly acquired.

Cases, Art museums, Painting, Modern, Modern painting, Cubism

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The bloodied sacred pine tree: a dialectical depiction of death in Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood' and 'Ran'

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'Throne of Blood' and 'Ran' are Akira Kurosawa's adaptations of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear,' respectively. Both films are influenced by conventions from Japan's no theater, especially in their depictions of death.

Japan, Influence, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Death, Critical Essay, Film adaptations, Movie adaptations, Ran (Kurosawa, Akira; 1985) (Motion picture), Throne of Blood (Motion picture), No, Noh drama, Kurosawa, Akira

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