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...was most needed.’ ‘Do not blame yourself, Doctor French. I worked for a while amongst the tribal peoples of Assam and this plant was used extensivel...

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...ds. 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 commerce, missionary endeavors, and scientific investiga...

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Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.

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...Most countries and peoples of Europe and Asia are grouped in the spheres of direct geopolitical influence of Russia, Germany, Serbia, Iraq and China. Repetition of relationship (defined by ethnic and religious proximity) between countries from ...

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...hasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Burmese, Filipino, Khmer, Lao, Thai Vietnamese and Chinese. Beginning with the common origins of Southeast Asia’s peoples and languages, their shared heritage is emphasized through agricultural, archeological, cultural, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious and technological fields. Perennially defined by rice, stability and co...

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...30s States 73 13. War and Independence 79 14. Marching to Statehood 83 15. Emerging Leadership 91 16. States to Nations to Region 99 17. Remote Peoples 105 18. Beliefs Systems 113 19. Evolving Syncretism 121 20. Religious Rebellions 129 21. Religion within Politics 137 22. Trade and Worldviews 143 23. Conclusion: Uniting Commonalities 147 Bibliography & ...

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...on, it has been the Russian tactic to absorb (biologically and culturally) the smaller non-Russian nationalities. Under the slogans of "friendship of peoples," the "drawing nearer" or "merging" of the peoples of the Soviet Union and other expressions of so-called "internationalism," Russian nationalism has been at work. The Russian's aim of absorbing the Central Asians cou...

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This story is about two peoples who fights with each other.

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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 ... ...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 ... ...r valley rice farmers, which distinguished them from Sino-Tibetan mountain peoples, still inhabiting the northern mountains. Later in the 19th and 20t... ... from them the forests, the whole environment in which many local mountain peoples have lived for centuries. Village houses In riverside villages, hou... ...remaining on the pyre. In Northern Thailand, in common with numerous other peoples, the soul of the deceased has been deemed to reside in the body par... ...the top of the stairs. This practice was also common with mountain swidden peoples of Thailand, and urn shelves may still also be seen in Lampang vill...

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...It is the purpose of this series of articles to attempt a resolution on these questions by reviewing the ethnological history of the Hawaiian peoples as contained in their ancient traditions, rituals and epic poetry. It is the purpose of these articles to present the Hawaiian royal traditions unconfounded by the elements and theology of Christianity or the insidio...

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...ird voyage, in which he and some of his crew recorded their efforts to communicate with this latest (and for Cook, the last) branch of the Polynesian peoples encountered on their exploration of the Pacific. Luckily for those of us interested in language, we had our counterparts over two centuries ago: some people who wrote down just a few words of Hawaiian, and others who ...

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...hold, 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 Israel...

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...ostles, as Ps. 19 declares; the sun is a type of Christ; the waters, of the peoples; but that does not make those things sacraments, for in every ca...

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... to proceed with the rebuilding of the second Jerusalem temple in 521 BC after the return of the deportees. Haggai attributes a recent drought to the peoples' refusal to rebuild the temple, which he sees as key to Jerusalem’s glory. The book ends with the prediction of the downfall of kingdoms, with one Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, as the Lord’s chosen leader. The langua...

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... Mrs. Pukui has passed on to me about life in old Hawaii and will increase their respect for the wisdom and skill of the Hawaiian people. Like other peoples living close to the earth, the early Hawaiians were constantly aware of the creative forces underlying and permeating their daily lives. To the gods who emerged from this awareness they turned to ask for help and ble...

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...ole range of story-telling” (p.2). Secondly, from the vantage point of Hawaiian oral narrative the book directs the reader into similar material from peoples elsewhere in Polynesia who are closely related to the Hawaiians, reminding him of relevant narratives from areas west of Polynesia and occasionally even east of Hawaii. The southern Pacific comparison Beckwith offers ...

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...e King. Seeking revenge for the loss of his magic belt, the Nome King has an underground tunnel built so he can invade and plunder Oz and enslave its peoples. Our friends manage to defeat the Nome King and his allies, but sobered by this threat, Glinda and Ozma decide to cut off Oz from the outside world forever. Happily for Oz fans, forever lasted only three years. Baum i...

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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... ... 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... ...he system of control for the later Roman Empire and its descen- dants. The peoples of the West knew far too well that revolt brought only Roman reveng... ...ersists to the present day. The promise of peace made by the Romans to the peoples they con- quered contrasted with an ever increasing internecine pol... ...ryday part of their own beliefs or as a part of the beliefs of neighboring peoples. Certainly in Turkey, Greece, and Rome, the three centers where Chr... ...how not up to scratch. The next two chapters are going to present two such peoples: North American Indians and Austral- ian Aborigines, who have (but ... ...e and spirituality, had visited and conversed with several American Indian peoples, and had written about their culture and spirituality. As a result ...