Sublime

Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.

cultural patrimony to tourists.

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

not ethnological,