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...he 19th century high chiefess known for her strong advocacy of Hawaiian language and culture, the College models its operation primarily through an indigenous language. Building upon the vast repository of traditional knowledge passed down through generations, the College seeks to develop an academic curriculum emphasizing language acquisition, linguistics, traditiona...

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...n kept secret for two millennia. Now that the wisdom of Kabbalah, among other indigenous wisdoms, is emerging full scale, I believe no other person ... ...ss of the wisdom that our forefathers possessed, and which we have forgotten. Indigenous wisdoms are appearing today precisely because our customary... ...ues and modes of thinking. Such modes are the ancient, albeit very pertinent, indigenous wis- doms. To them, planetary consciousness is not merely an... ...ons that tore from Mesopotamia evolved into a civilization of many different peoples. Of the two primary groups, one became what we refer to as “We...

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...on and reforestation should be rationalized as should be land use; drought-related indigenous agricultural and water management knowledge and crop ... ...tion of World War II, the United States has acted as a rapacious conqueror of other peoples' lands under the flimsiest of pretexts. Its expansion wa...

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...of soul, but no one is born with a pre-made soul. Throughout the history of peoples and nations, many different types of souls have been chosen and t... ... steps. The first one has to do with going from childhood to adulthood. In indigenous tribes this passage comes about through initiation rites that ...

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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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...tudy and read, see on TV customs and beliefs of many strange countries and peoples, and absorb them and abandon the traditional good manners. Today's ... ...ploughing, I'm sure they will disappear. In the past, we used to only grow indigenous varieties, but today people buy improved seed varieties with a y... ... your lifetime? Will buffalo disappear altogether? What about seed grain? indigenous varieties are cheaper. In the old days, we just used to use catt... ...llages, such as Ban Dong, were established. Up on the mountains, they met peoples engaged in swidden cultivation. The agrarian revolution afforded th... ... modern mainstreams. The Yuan people of the plains belong to Northern Thai peoples, who have had their own history, language and cultural bonds. Lampa... ...icture is still seen in villagers' houses. The earliest habitation of Thai peoples is deemed to be South China; due to constant wars, people from Chin... ...China and wandered via Burma to Lampang. The Thai Yuan, Shan and Lao (Lue) peoples have been river valley rice farmers, which distinguished them from ... ... and their number grows from one set of figures to the next. The country's indigenous researchers have now tried to curb the writing and found that if...

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..., harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to HawaiI, and they made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime comm...

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...overview of the history of the mapping of Hawaii from the time of European discovery in 1778 through the mid-19th century. Mapmaking was not an art indigenous to Hawaii; foreigners were responsible for the introduction of mapmaking in the islands. For well over seventy years, mapping in Hawaii was largely carried out by Europeans or Americans, and the early maps of Haw...

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...ma Lyons, who discusses the highly sophisticated culture of the Aboriginal peoples for whom the continent of Australia is not merely their home, but a... ...g in the literature to discover, for example, discussions debating whether indigenous groups such as the traditional clans of Aborigines in Australia ... ...ved impossible to implement, because by that standard neither Buddhism nor indigenous Aboriginal tradition would qualify. Aboriginal tradition has pre... ... fish on Fridays and the use of head coverings in church. When it comes to indigenous populations, it becomes virtually or totally impossible to disti... ...ON 6 RELIGIOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS VERSUS AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO GOD Unlike indigenous religious cultures, most modern religious systems place great st... ...to this category American Indians and Australian Aborigines and most other indigenous groups are fitted by sociologists and many historians of religio... ... and depth psychology in general, have found virtually no acceptance among peoples which have a long-standing Buddhist tradition. There is considerabl... ...Buddhist nations” as we do of “Christian nations.” But why was it that the peoples to the West were so easy to persuade that Jesus was God, while the ... ... gone hand in hand. Rome required a religious ideology that would keep its peoples under its administrative and economic thumb. A single God who is th...

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...Mestico, 1% European Religion: 68% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant, about 12% indigenous beliefs Language: Portuguese (official); various Bantu dialect... ...Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba); 5,500 Europeans Benin (continued) Religion: 70% indigenous beliefs, 15% Muslim, 15% Christian Language: French (official)... ...); adjective Bhutanese Ethnic divisions: 60% Bhote, 25% ethnic Nepalese, 15% indigenous or migrant tribes Religion: 75% Lamaistic Buddhism, 25% Indian... ...wana; about 4% Kalanga, Basarwa, and Kgalagadi; about 1% white Religion: 50% indigenous beliefs, 50% Christian Language: English (official), Setswana ... ... 16% other Religion: 60% Muslim (official); 8% Chris- tian; 32% Buddhist and indigenous beliefs Language: Malay (official), English, and Chinese Life ... ...uffrage: universal over age 18 Political parties and leaders: PRK Kampuchean Peoples Revolutionary Party, the Communist party installed by Vietnam in ... ...sal adult Elections: parliament elected May 1982 Political party and leader: Peoples Progress Assembly (RPP), Hassan Gouled Aptidon; sole legal party ... ...ratic, Atli Dam; Republican, Erlendur Patursson; Home Rule, Tobj0rn Poulsen; Peoples, Jogvan Sundstei i Voting strength: (January 1985) four-party coa... ...4% People's Democratic League (16 seats), 6.3% Rural (9 seats), 5.3% Swedish Peoples (13 seats), 4.3% Democratic Alternative (4 seats), 4.0% Greens (4...

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...nferior. The white man's burden must not be encumbered by the vagaries of primitive indigenous jurisprudence. Hence America's fierce resistance to a... ... soul searching and house cleaning do little to ameliorate this antagonism. To the peoples of the poor world, America is both a colonial power and ... ... with scant regard for human rights, in cahoots with venal and sometimes homicidal indigenous politicians. And it drains the developing world of it... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...know, not when it manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not... ... Byzantium. The modus operandi of the United States involves ad-hoc alliances with indigenous warlords, drug czars, terrorists, guerrilleros, freed... ...tion of World War II, the United States has acted as a rapacious conqueror of other peoples' lands under the flimsiest of pretexts. Its expansion wa... ...eplete with abundant raw materials and dirt-cheap, though well-educated, labor. As indigenous purchasing power increases, the demand for consumer g...

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...ism. He even adds that the social and spiritual practices followed by the indigenous people were distinctly different 44 compared to the pract... ...equal and there is no difference between anyone.” [Kudiarasu, 30-9-1928] Indigenous gods In South India, 90% of the people do not know about S... ...son why the Aryans—who migrated to our country in ancient times—degraded the indigenous native tribal people as Asuras, Rakshashas, Mlechas, Pancha... ... issue that needs to be solved urgently, and in order to be respected by the peoples of the world is untouchability. To prove that Indians are not ... ...eir own nation and establishing rule and governance like the majority of the peoples of the countries of the world — we can firmly state that there... ...from the Dravidian land. In this 20 th century, the Dravidians—who are the indigenous people of this country, who are the descendants of kings wh... ... have never considered that merely due to getting the temple entry right, our indigenous people will get education or improved living standards. Eve... ...might require several people to die. Did Pakistan which sacrificed and killed peoples in tens of thousands get annihilated? Or has that society disa... ...scientific education would change the caste system that inculcated low caste peoples’ slavish mentality and respect for Brahmins. So due to their s...

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...og- ative that no other part of nature has—to patronize and oppress other peoples and species? where has this arrogance come from, if not from ignor... ... w estern music; it is essential to almost any type of music, especially indigenous music. Today, however, balance must be kept not just because we...

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...roops to the escalating conflict - as mass expulsions cum sporadic massacres of the indigenous population by the Serbs were taking place - was consi... ... it was Islam and its excesses that made the Church the undisputed shepherd of the peoples of the Balkan, a position it did not enjoy before. The n... ...central administration shared the loot with its local representatives and with the indigenous elites - the church and the feudal landed gentry. It ... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...know, not when it manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not... ...w doctrine. Looking back in recent history, we will find Russian terrorists of the Peoples' freedom, Jewish terrorists of the Stern gang, Serbian t...

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... rather than scarce. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins discovered that primitive peoples he has studied had no concept of "scarcity" - only of "s... ...s such as GDP per capita or average wages. Why didn't drug prices adjust to reflect indigenous purchasing power? According to the Paris-based In... ... to finance the insatiable consumption of its denizens and to prop up a variety of indigenous asset bubbles. Still, as any first year student of or... ... hubris. This is not conducive to happy co-existence between foreign do-gooders and indigenous governments. Sometimes NGO's seem to be an ingenious ... ...and institutions. They are powerful, rich, and care less about the welfare of the indigenous population than about "universal" principles of ethic... ...tify military interventions. They maintain commercial interests which compete with indigenous manufacturers. They provoke unrest in many a place. A... ...nal profit, incentives. The dangers of transition were flippantly ignored and the peoples of central and eastern Europe were treated as mere guine...

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...cisely about our time: “then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples” (Exodus 19, 5), and “for a father of a multitude of nations have... ...ywhere I go outside of Israel. Even within Israel and around it there are peoples who wish to destroy, or at the very least, subdue us. I have to t... ...sin of the golden calf and other sins as well. They began to fight other peoples. The other peoples, who are our own 193 of 263 Interview ... ... descend from the upper worlds and each of them is still active over the indigenous territory of every nation. When one sees the powers descending ... ...old, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my standard to the peoples: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters sh... ... And that force will come to the whole of the people of Israel, until the peoples of the world within us recognize the virtue of the Greats of Israe...

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...ps you led a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenous peoples. Now your task is to make the society work. You have a... ...a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenous peoples. Now your task is to make the society work. You have a preference... ...he was discovered by scientific ‘gene hunters,’ engaged in seeking out native peoples whose lives and cultures are threatened with extinction. Though t... ...abandoned the attempt in the face of furious protest from representatives of indigenous peoples.” T om Wilkie, “Whose Gene Is It Anyway?” Inde- penden... ...he attempt in the face of furious protest from representatives of indigenous peoples.” T om Wilkie, “Whose Gene Is It Anyway?” Inde- pendent (London, ...

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...le around to suit your own needs? How long before any consideration of other peoples needs begins to fade and become less important than your own wi... ...any of Westerners slowly and systematically committing mass genocide on other peoples… by labeling them as murdering savages…. When all they wanted ... ...nything, or any such thing as an absolute constant; is not deemed relevant to peoples lives. The fact that all absolute constants originate from the... ...ing from them. Why did WW1 happen? There was too much goodwill between the peoples of Europe. All of the cultural blossoming of unification and ... ...d secret plots and murders committed in that first attempt. It shows how the indigenous natives the Algonquians did not want them there. How the I... ...gold and food. They did not even try to find food, or grow it. it shows the Indigenous Indians refusing to give them food. THE PATH OF SPLITNES... ...erhanded form of mass genocide ever committed by one race of invaders against indigenous peoples. Humans are connected to the Earth in many ways. ... ...of imported African slaves. It was based upon the systematic genocide of the indigenous tribes. It was based on creating the new Age of Industrial... ...a. They refused to learn from their friends and neighbors the North American indigenous people whom they systematically cheated, and hated and fear...

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...which might be the root word for Satan, it seems more likely that they are indigenous to the monotheistic religions of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Chris... ...der.‖ 145 —―It‘s either a selfish way to try to increase the indigenous population or it is a generous way to keep up the human traditi... ... itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, ‗framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several 238 states must sink or swim together, and that... ...me it, not resist it. People err when they see Africa‘s starving and sick peoples as deprived. They are deprived only in an economic sense. Morally s... ...not really innocent. For these reasons, God ordered the destruction of the peoples whom the Israelites dispossessed.‖ ----Is it possible th...

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... to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers amon... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...know, not when it manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not... ...ks, and investors. Six years later, President Vladimir Putin dismantled Yukos, the indigenous oil giant and confiscated its assets, in stark contra... ... rather than scarce. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins discovered that primitive peoples he has studied had no concept of "scarcity" - only of "s...

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... to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers amon... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...know, not when it manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not... ...ks, and investors. Six years later, President Vladimir Putin dismantled Yukos, the indigenous oil giant and confiscated its assets, in stark contra... ... rather than scarce. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins discovered that primitive peoples he has studied had no concept of "scarcity" - only of "s...

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... it's no wonder that issues related to privacy, security and more weigh on peoples' minds. As in the past, some people will choose to wall thems... ... its expansion to Siberia (Karsnoyarski Krai) to compete head on with two indigenous incumbents, EniseiTelecom and SibChallenge. Vimpelcom's competi...

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...fact, there exist in the islands 30 different varieties of bird-life, some indigenous and othera mi- gratory. Among these many dif- ferent families of... ...- sophical union, 10 H. H. ACHINESE DESERT An Expedition Among^ the Lonely Peoples of Turkestan Described A journey attended by unusual dangers over t... ... quit the region, and to make room for themeelves they expelled by war the peoples living in lands beyond the desert. These in turn were forced to see...

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...ranged purposely for this end; a differ ence had come between two kindred peoples; a war had bro ken out; a young officer, with the traditions of an... ...h right there as if she had grown up out of the soil like one of the wild, indigenous flowers which she had been gazing at and handling. However that ... ...ew variations, it is true; but even here there was a close analogy, plants indigenous to America be ing substituted for cognate productions, the grow... ...ined them again. “Do you tell me,” said he, “that the plant has been found indigenous in this country, and in your part of it? And in what locality?” ... ...ndigenous in this country, and in your part of it? And in what locality?” “Indigenous, so far as I know,” answered Septimius. “As to the locality,”—he... ...nted with all its shores, seas, rivers, mountains, fields, and the various peoples who in habit them, and to whom it is my purpose to be a benefac ...

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...hough the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Eu... ...hough the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Eu... ... states by their origin is clearly distinguishable. At the period when the peoples of Europe landed in the New World their national characteristics we... ...ulse to the social machine can nowhere be discovered. Nevertheless, as all peoples are obliged to have recourse to certain gram- matical forms, which ... ...States, or a sort of congress, at which the representatives of the several peoples would meet to discuss certain points of their com- mon interests. T... ...very nature of Fed- eral Governments. We have observed that in confederate peoples it is especially necessary to consolidate the judicial authority, b... ...ests of the nation. Nevertheless the Federal Government of these different peoples has always been as remarkable for its weak- ness and inefficiency a... ...e government of the Union wishes to transport the broken rem- nants of the indigenous population of the South to the por- tion of this country which i...

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...ld shepherd’s festival; and one could not help pictur- ing to oneself what havoc among good peoples purses, and tribulation for benignant constables, ... ...topics; but it was his specially to have a generous taste in eating. This was what was most indigenous in the man; it was here he was an artist; and I... ...very pleasant in that succession of saunterers and brisk and business-like passers-by, that peoples our ways and helps to build up what Walt Whitman c...

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...th other groups. Samoa is, for the moment, the main and the most instruc- tive exception to the rule. The people are the most chaste and one of the mo... ...ople plays the part of the Contagious Diseases Act; in-comers to fresh islands anxiously inquire if all be well; and syphilis, when contracted, is suc...

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...ving earlier knowledge of the Tarrants, had undertaken to show him something indigenous and curious, possibly even fascinating. Mr. Gracie was short, ... ...ut social and economical questions, forms of government and the happiness of peoples. The convictions he had arrived at were not such as mix gracefull...

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... question for all civilised nations, by indus tries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; ... ...he bourgeois sense of the word. National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the devel opment of ...

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...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...redatory efficiency are deeply ingrained in the habits of thought of those peoples who have passed under the discipline of a protracted predatory cul-... ... the indignity of the slightest manual labour is familiar to all civilized peoples, as well as to peoples of a less advanced pecuniary culture. In per... ...ceable culture that the women even comes to serve as a unit of value among peoples occupying this cultural stage — as for instance in Homeric times. W... ...ford the indulgence. Infirmities induced by over-indulgence are among some peoples freely recognised as manly attributes. It has even happened that th... ... for moving with ease over the firm and open country to which the horse is indigenous. It is 98 The Theory of the Leisure Class not only with respect...

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...themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. In similar fashion, peoples still existing, but remote in space, Brit- ish, Germans, Italians, ... ...nt to account for the difference in culture. In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions. ... ...the operation of factors which have tended to elimi- nate distance between peoples and classes previously hemmed off from one another. Even the allege... ...of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse be- tween them and thus accidentally ... ... present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring 91 John Dewey peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible con- nection with one ... ...n that has nothing to do with the experi- enced facts of life, it is found indigenous in experience:— the factor by which past experiences are purifie...

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... Thebes to seek me; for if ye my friends, Championed by those dread Powers indigenous, Espouse my cause; then for the State ye gain A great deliverer,... ...desire, With thee and with this land! for fear of heaven I found above all peoples most with you, And righteousness and lips that cannot lie. I speak ...

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...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ... Christians being exterminated, and the Moslem invaders being robbed of an indigenous working population, naturally inquires what it was that led to s...