Thanks to the transmission of our language, we have managed to survive,” explains Roger Kuyoc, who was born in Tizimín Yucatán, Mexico.

Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

Presenting never-before-seen ephemera and the works of 19 contemporary Black artists, the Hammer Museum pays homage to the ...

The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

There’s a soulful power to the sounds drifting across the Andean highlands, where steep mountains and deep valleys have shaped centuries of musical heritage.

Many Maká traditions have slowly faded. Yet a few elders among these Paraguayan Indigenous people recall how their songs ...

Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud, held by Hamas since October 7, 2023, was handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern ...

Colgate University found a statuette of a deity of prosperity within the Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections. The ceramic figurine, Iqiqu (in Aymara) or Ekeko (in Spanish), is a main figure in ...

They make up more than 5 per cent of the world's population, some 370 million people. Together, they are custodians of a valuable and often fast-disappearing cultural heritage. We see their ...