The Foodways of Hawai'i: Past and Present, Hobart 9780367592875 Free Shipping..

Taylor & Francis

Offering diverse perspectives on Hawai\u02BBi\u2019s food system, this book addresses themes of place and identity across time. From early Western contact to the present day, the way in which people in Hawai\u02BBi grow, import, and consume their food has shifted in response to the pressures of colonialism, migration, new technologies, and globalization. Because of Hawai\u02BBi\u2019s history of agricultural abundance, its geographic isolation in the Pacific Ocean, and its heavy reliance on imported foods today, it offers a rich case study for understanding how food systems develop in-place. In so doing, the contributors implicitly and explicitly complicate the narrative of the \""local,\"" which has until recently dominated much of the existing scholarship on Hawai\u02BBi\u2019s foodways. With topics spanning GMO activism, agricultural land use trends, customary access and fishing rights, poi production, and the dairy industry, this volume reveals how \""local food\"" is emplaced throug.