Word: sacredness
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Our special double issue chronicling travels to several of Europe's most inspiring natural marvels and human architectural masterworks prompted readers to share stories of their own favorite amazing places. Some complained, however, that their home country was unjustly overlooked I enjoyed Time's reports on "the Wonders of Europe...
Before the arrival of missionaries and magistrates, the Sepik people were ferocious warriors and enthusiastic gatherers and keepers of heads, which held special significance for them. According to French anthropologist Nicolas Garnier, who has spent lengthy periods living among the tribes, the head was a sacred trophy. Some time after...
He called Tanna's chiefs together and predicted the coming of new and strange objects and ideas. "He said there is a big boat coming, a plane and the icebox, the truck, and this place will be different," says senior man Johnson Kuanu. Some new things, he told them, would...
One of China's most remote ethnic groups, the Dulong, has just got a shortcut to the rest of the world. Numbering about 6,000, the Dulong were once known for tattooing the faces of their womenfolk (a custom designed to discourage neighboring Tibetans from kidnapping them as slaves). That...
"Mr. Lincoln, that was a sacred effort," Douglass replied.