The Value of Hawai'i: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions Volume 2 (Biography Monograph) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824839757 ISBN 13: 9780824839758

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014

Synopsis

How can more of us protect and create waiwai, value, for coming generations? Continuing the conversation of The Value of Hawai‘i: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future, this new collection gathers together fresh voices sharing their inspiring work in farming, government, voyaging, water rights, archaeology, gender advocacy, education, business, community health, art, immigration, and more to enhance the present and future value of Hawai‘i.

By exploring connections to ancestors and others across our Pacific world, the contributors to this volume offer passionate and poignant visions. Their autobiographical essays will inspire readers to live consciously and lead ourselves as island people.

Published for the Biographical Research Center, University of Hawai`i at M?noa.

About this title

About the Author

Aiko Yamashiro is a poet, graduate student in English, and instructor of de/anti-colonial literature of Hawai‘i.

Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘?pua is a kanaka aloha ‘?ina, writer, and professor of politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824839757
• ISBN 13: 9780824839758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Yamashiro Aiko