{"product_id":"kaiaulu-gathering-tides","title":"Kaiaulu: Gathering Tides","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eMehana Blaich Vaughan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 272 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"beeline-region beeline-colored-area beeline-theme-bright\" data-beeline-indicator=\"beeline-enabled\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe tide is rising ahead of the early morning sun on the northeast coast of the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i. Waves rush singing onto the outer reef where two throw net fishermen stalk the surge. An elderly woman with her silver hair in a kerchief makes her way toward shore, two octopuses tucked in her mesh bag. Within hours, two hundred tourists will snorkel, sunbathe, and teeter on the coral, few ever knowing that people fish here or that their catch sustains an entire \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekaiāulu\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(community) connected to this stretch of reef.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis coast is known as a playground for tourists and backdrop for Hollywood movies, but catch from small local reefs, and the sharing of this abundance, has sustained area families for centuries, helping them to thrive through tidal waves, hurricanes, an influx of new residents, and economic recessions. Yet fishing families are increasingly invisible and many have moved away, threatened by global commodification and loss of access to coastal lands that are now private retreats for star entertainers, investors, and dot-com millionaires.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBuilding on two decades of interviews with more than sixty Hawaiian elders, leaders, and fishermen and women, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaiāulu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e shares their stories of enduring community efforts to perpetuate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekuleana,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e often translated to mean “rights and responsibilities.” Community actions extend \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekuleana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to include nurturing respectful relationships with resources, guarding and cultivating fishing spots, perpetuating collective harvests and sharing, maintaining connection to family lands, reasserting local governance rooted in ancestral values, and preparing future generations to carry on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn important contribution to scholarship in the fields of natural resource management, geography, Indigenous Studies, and Hawaiian Studies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaiāulu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is also a skillfully written and deeply personal tribute to a community based not on ownership, but reciprocity, responsibility, and caring for the places that shape and sustain us all.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chicago Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":40262784450726,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0465\/5765\/9302\/products\/9780870719226_a5c84e4b-80db-433f-b509-286fbbb7c6ec.jpg?v=1613010697","url":"https:\/\/na-mea-hawai-i.myshopify.com\/products\/kaiaulu-gathering-tides","provider":"Hawaiian Council dba Nā Mea Hawaiʻi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}