Tradition Archives

Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand jointly nominated the kebaya for UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Southeast Asia seeks global recognition for ‘special’ kebaya craft

In a Malaysian boutique, a small group of seamstresses sit at clattering sewing machines, stitching bright flowers and leaves into kebayas, traditional blouses worn...

AFPMay 15, 2023

'It's not the happiest time of year' for sheep farmer Guillaume Garcin as lambs are brought for slaughter

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Silence of the lambs as French livestock slaughtered for Easter

The bleats and human voices have fallen away in an abattoir in southern France, leaving a line of lambs crowding forward to the sound...

AFPApril 5, 2023

Cesar Paredes, 9, is learning the tricks of the bullfighting trade at a special school in Venezuela

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‘Look brave’: Children taught bullfighting at Venezuelan torero school

Nine-year-old Cesar Paredes enters the bullring impeccably dressed in his traditional Venezuelan bullfighter’s suit, pink cape neatly folded over one arm, to the ovation...

AFPApril 5, 2023

Spain has a centuries-old tradition of biblical theatre depicting the Passion of Christ

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Spain’s begins centuries-old Easter processions

Spain’s colourful Holy Week celebrations begin on Sunday, featuring centuries-old processions of the faithful carrying flower-covered floats topped with statues of Christ or the...

AFPApril 2, 2023

Cuban rum master Cesar Marti tests the density of one of the rums he makes, at the Central Rum Factory in the town of Santo Domingo, Villa Clara Province, some 270 kilometres southeast of Havana, Cuba

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Cuban rum masters preserve a century-old tradition

Rum-maker Cesar Marti says that even after 20 years he feels the same pleasure each morning entering his distillery in Santo Domingo, Cuba, where...

AFPMarch 22, 2023

Customers brave the cold to queue up for their traditional sheep's head dish in Oruro

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Lambs’s head, a favorite dish for Bolivia’s night owls

At a table on a street corner in Oruro in western Bolivia, night owls get ready to tuck into a favorite dish touted as...

AFPMarch 5, 2023

Victor Teran, 17, practices with a lasso at a "charreria" school in Mexico

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School trains new generation in Mexican cowboy traditions

Wearing a wide-brimmed hat, silver-buttoned shirt and embroidered tie, teenager Victor Teran skillfully twirls a lasso at a Mexican school training younger generations in...

AFPSeptember 7, 2022

Ethiopian girls, wearing headbands in the colours of the Tigrayan flag, take part in the Ashenda celebrations at al-Qurashi park in the Sudanese capital Khartoum

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Ethiopians from war-ravaged Tigray celebrate holiday in Sudan

Donning a festive white dress, with her hair intricately braided and her eyes lined with the traditional kohl paint, Ethiopian Yudita Ihab prepared for...

AFPSeptember 6, 2022