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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’
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Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))
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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand.