ancestral practices
Old family ways
Ancestral practices are customs, rituals, or traditions passed down through generations within a family or cultural group.
The phrase often appears in discussions of indigenous rights, traditional medicine, or cultural preservation: The community fought to maintain their ancestral practices on the land.
It can also describe any inherited way of doing things: ancestral farming practices, ancestral burial practices.
- rites of passageCeremonies marking major transitions
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- oral storytellingTransmitting tales aloud
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- cultural heritagefolklore, traditions, customs, folk music revival, museum collections
- traditional culturestradition, customs, heritage, oral traditions, tribal societies
- tribal governancetribal council, tribal councils, tribal government, elders, chieftaincy
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization