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Traditions, customs, cultural practices, and insights

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  Siberian throat singing produces multiple pitches from one breath

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  Why Irish step dancers keep their arms stiff

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  Samoan fire knife dancers twirl flaming blades

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  Maori moko tattoos are living facial biographies

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  Amazon tribes hunt with poison that keeps meat fresh

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  Polynesian tattoos are a living language

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  Hopi kachina dolls are not for play

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  Samoan fale houses have no walls

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  Siberian shamans drum to heal and journey spiritually

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  Maori wood carvings bridge worlds

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  Australian Aboriginal art: 60,000 years of living stories

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  Korean hanbok colors once showed social status

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  Persian rugs are woven maps of paradise

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  Torii gates separate worlds in Japan

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  Batik: Indonesia's ancient art of wax-resist dyeing

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