traditional practices
Inherited cultural methods
Traditional practices are customs, methods, or activities handed down through generations within a culture or community.
The phrase often appears in discussions of indigenous peoples, medicine, or religion: traditional practices of the Cherokee Nation, traditional healing practices.
The term can signal respect for cultural heritage or, in some contexts, mark practices as outdated: traditional practices that conflict with modern values.
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- festivalsOrganized communal celebrations
pottery · ancestral worship · sacred grounds · oral storytelling · crop rotation · seed saving · composting · terracing · woodworking · embroidery · communal meals · apprenticeship · hand to hand · fermentation · bread making · basketry · midwifery · moon cycles
- Indigenous cultureancestors, ancestry, ancestral lands, ancestral lineage, animal totems
- heritage gardeningheirloom plants, seed saving
- Maori culturemana, tapu, whanaungatanga, whakapapa, waka
- Ogoni
- Alaska Native Rightsnative rights, tribal sovereignty, native land rights, tribal governance, village councils
- allotmentsallotments, kitchen gardens, potting sheds, tool sheds, raised beds