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Culture Ghost marriage: The Chinese custom of wedding the dead to unite lonely spiritsSeptember 11, 202614 In parts of rural China, and among Chinese communities across Taiwan and Southeast Asia, there is a practice of arranging…
Culture To Makula’: The Torajan practice of keeping the dead at home and treating them as merely sickSeptember 11, 202610 In the highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, a person’s death does not end their presence in the household. Among the…
Culture Doljabi: The Korean first-birthday custom of letting a baby’s grab predict its futureSeptember 11, 202615 At a Korean baby’s first birthday party, after the cake and the photographs, there is a moment the whole room…
Culture Gerewol: The Wodaabe festival where men compete in beauty and dance to be chosen by womenSeptember 11, 202614 Every year, at the ragged edge of the Sahara, hundreds of Wodaabe herders converge after the rains to trade cattle,…
Culture Sateré-Mawé: The Amazonian rite where boys wear gloves of stinging ants to become menSeptember 11, 202614 Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, along the border of the states of Pará and Amazonas, the Sateré-Mawé people practice one…
Culture Famadihana: The Malagasy ritual of digging up the dead, rewrapping them, and dancing with the bonesSeptember 11, 202612 In the central highlands of Madagascar, when the dry season arrives between June and September, families gather at ancestral tombs…
Culture The Mentawai tribe whose women sharpen their teeth with a chisel and hammer to show beauty and adulthoodAugust 30, 202647 Imagine sitting down while another person places a piece of wood against your mouth, positions a chisel against one of…
