Foodways of Hawai'i

<p>Offering diverse perspectives on Hawai?i’s 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?i grow import and consume their food has shifted in response to the pressures of colonialism migration new technologies and globalization. Because of Hawai?i’s 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?i’s 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 through dynamic and complex articulations of history politics and economic change. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Food Culture and Society. </i></p>