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Biography Monographs
The Value of Hawai'i 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions
How can more of us protect and create waiwai, value, for coming generations? Continuing the conversation of The Value of Hawaii: 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 Hawaii. 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.
320 pages, ebook
First published April 30, 2014
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February 19, 2022
The Value of Hawai'i has been one of the best essay collections I've encountered to educate myself on Hawaiian issues through Hawaiian voices. The essays span a broad range of topics affecting the islands and draw from history while also painting a vision for the future. Two of my favorite essays were Acido's "Praying for Mendedness," and Saranillio's "Alternative Economies for Alternative Futures." Acido's discussion of faith was one of the best I think I've ever read. He talks of the inherent contradictions of being a liberated Filipino who also practices ardently the religion of the colonizer. He also writes of faith as distinct from worshiping in a church or deriving your moral code from an ancient book.
"I speak of faith as a condition of being-a constant engagement with life that leaves us 'open' to knowledge and wisdom that we receive from greater forces that we may not yet perceive. To have faith is to be open to the affirmative possibilities of life without the material evidence that we constantly look for."
Saranillio illustrates the benefits of an Indigenous economy based around abundance, rather than scarcity. They suggest that "in order to sustain resistance, one must be autonomous," highlighting this as the primary difference between food security and food sovereignty. One gives you a meal to eat, the other gives you the power to resist hegemonic forces and provide for your community.
"I speak of faith as a condition of being-a constant engagement with life that leaves us 'open' to knowledge and wisdom that we receive from greater forces that we may not yet perceive. To have faith is to be open to the affirmative possibilities of life without the material evidence that we constantly look for."
Saranillio illustrates the benefits of an Indigenous economy based around abundance, rather than scarcity. They suggest that "in order to sustain resistance, one must be autonomous," highlighting this as the primary difference between food security and food sovereignty. One gives you a meal to eat, the other gives you the power to resist hegemonic forces and provide for your community.
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