As frequently happens in Latin America, religious rites synthesize Christian and native practices.

The native practice not only requires a stiff wrist, but a stiff though not a straight elbow, for a cut that shall disabl.

A 'Wakid' is a symbolic native practice in preparing for a meaningful journey.

He also successfully treated a large native out-door practice, and obtained patients among high-caste Hindu women, who previously would not see an American doctor.

What he was really doing was restoring a native practice that the Normans drove out - the counting of stresses, not syllables.

He disdained the law and encouraged the revival of native practices.

Most of the Chera population followed native Dravidian practices.

Offenders (practitioners of native spiritual practices) were incarcerated through these tribunals.

Historically, English syllabics have not evolved over time from native practice, but rather are the inventions of literate poets, primarily in the 20th century.

Missionaries attempted to 'civilize' the Indians, often in ways that disregarded or misunderstood native practices.