Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law

by Sally Engle Merry

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How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691009325

ISBN13:9780691009322

Release Date:December 1999

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:432 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Australia & Oceania Cultural History Humanities Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences State & Local

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