Community & care
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Ngoyo and Woyo proverb wisdom
A historically grounded introduction to Ngoyo and to the Woyo art of using carved proverbs for counsel, disagreement, and reflection.
Lower Congo · Cabinda · 9 highlights↗Akan thought
A rich field of ideas about personhood, character, memory, community, and symbols.
Ghana · Côte d'Ivoire · 5 highlights↗Igbo thought and practice
Ideas of life, destiny, ethical authority, work, and social responsibility expressed in many Igbo settings.
Nigeria · 5 highlights↗Ubuntu and hunhu
Related Southern African discussions of character, humanity, social relations, and responsibility.
Southern Africa · 5 highlights↗Oromo Gadaa system
An Oromo system of social and political organisation with structured cycles of responsibility and leadership.
Ethiopia · Kenya · 5 highlights↗Sidama Fichee-Chambalaalla
A Sidama New Year tradition that brings together renewal, shared food, counsel, and reconciliation.
Ethiopia · 5 highlights↗Mijikenda Kaya traditions
Sacred Kaya forests link ancestral settlements, codes of conduct, governance, and care for place.
Coastal Kenya · 5 highlights↗Makishi and mukanda
Initiation and masquerade practices of several related communities, carrying teachings about adulthood and social life.
Zambia and neighbouring regions · 5 highlights↗Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
The Words That Come Before All Else gather attention and gratitude toward the living world.
Northeastern North America · 5 highlights↗Diné Hózhó
Diné discussions of beauty, balance, harmony, and living well in relation to land and community.
Diné Bikéyah · North America · 5 highlights↗Māori concepts and responsibilities
Interrelated ideas of genealogy, care, hospitality, and guardianship in Māori life.
Aotearoa New Zealand · 5 highlights↗Torres Strait Islander knowledge
Island communities sustain distinct languages, Ailan Kastom, and relationships with sea, land, and sky.
Zenadth Kes · Torres Strait · 5 highlights↗Cherokee Gadugi
Gadugi is a Cherokee ethic of working together for the community.
Cherokee Nation · United States · 5 highlights↗Andean Ayni
Ayni refers to ongoing reciprocity among people in Andean communities.
Peru · Bolivia · wider Andes · 5 highlights↗Confucian traditions
An evolving family of ethical and political traditions concerning learning, relationships, and good government.
China · Korea · Japan · Vietnam · 5 highlights↗Korean Confucian philosophy
Korean Confucian thinkers developed original debates about principle, material force, emotion, education, and government.
Korea · 5 highlights↗Sikh teachings
A living tradition of devotion, remembrance, equality, and service rooted in the Sikh Gurus and Guru Granth Sahib.
Punjab and global diaspora · 5 highlights↗Balinese Tri Hita Karana and subak
Balinese subak joins farmer cooperation, water temples, irrigation, and ritual.
Bali · Indonesia · 5 highlights↗Bahá’í teachings and practice
The Bahá’í faith joins prayer, fasting, consultation, and the independent search for truth within a modern global religion.
Iranian origins · worldwide · 5 highlights↗African American Hoodoo and Conjure
Hoodoo, Conjure, and Rootwork name overlapping African American traditions of practical spiritual knowledge.
United States · 6 highlights↗Cuban Lukumí and Regla de Ocha
Lukumí or Regla de Ocha developed in Cuba through Yoruba continuities and Afro Cuban community life under slavery and freedom.
Cuba · 5 highlights↗Brazilian Candomblé
Candomblé is an Afro Brazilian religious family that developed through African continuities and Brazilian histories of enslavement, resistance, and community building.
Brazil · 5 highlights↗Mapuche ngillatun
Ngillatun names a Mapuche communal form of prayer and gathering.
Chile · Argentina · 6 highlights↗Maya-Mam Nan Pa’ch
Nan Pa’ch is a Maya-Mam ceremony of thanks for maize harvests in San Pedro Sacatepéquez.
San Pedro Sacatepéquez · Guatemala · 6 highlights↗Mi’kmaw Netukulimk
Netukulimk connects Mi’kmaw livelihood, responsibility, and care for the continuing life of land and waters.
Mi’kma’ki · Atlantic Canada · 6 highlights↗Gullah Geechee cultural and spiritual life
Gullah Geechee communities carry a distinct African American Creole language and traditions along the southeastern Atlantic coast.
United States · Carolinas to Florida · 6 highlights↗Garifuna language, music, and coastal knowledge
Garifuna heritage joins an Arawakan language, African and Indigenous Caribbean histories, song, dance, and coastal knowledge.
Belize · Guatemala · Honduras · Nicaragua · 6 highlights↗Taíno heritage and living identity
Taíno heritage is part of the living Indigenous Caribbean, despite a long colonial story that declared Native peoples vanished.
Puerto Rico · Dominican Republic · Cuba · diaspora · 6 highlights↗Moore Town Maroon heritage
Moore Town Maroon heritage joins collective autonomy, ancestral ceremonies, language, and treaty land in Jamaica.
Blue and John Crow Mountains · Jamaica · 6 highlights↗Yawuru Mabu Liyan
Mabu liyan is central to Yawuru understandings of a good life.
Broome region · Western Australia · 6 highlights↗Cree wâhkôhtowin and kinship law
Wâhkôhtowin names kinship and interdependence in Cree teachings.
Cree territories · Canada · 6 highlights↗Guna mola making and identity
Molas are hand-sewn textile panels made by Guna women and omeguiids, transgender men.
Guna territories · Panama and Colombia · 6 highlights↗Guaraní heritage in tereré and pohã ñana
Tereré with pohã ñana brings Guaraní-rooted plant knowledge into an everyday practice of gathering, sharing, and conversation in Paraguay.
Paraguay · 6 highlights↗Somali-Issa Xeer Ciise
Xeer Ciise is an oral system of customary law among Somali-Issa communities across the Horn of Africa.
Ethiopia · Djibouti · Somalia · 6 highlights↗