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Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry.
- Title
- Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry.
- Author
- Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.
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| Text | Request in advance | DU624.65 .M47 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 371 p. ; ill., 1 map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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 movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i.
- Series Statement
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- Uniform Title
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-363) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A note on language and terminology -- Part 1: Encounters in a contact zone : New England missionaries, lawyers, and the appropriation of Ango-American law, 1820-1852. The process of legal transformation ; The first transition : religious law ; The second transition : secular law -- Part 2: Local practices of policing and judging in Hilo, Hawai'i. The social history of a planation town ; Judges and caseloads in Hilo ; Protest and the law on the Hilo Sugar Planation ; Sexuality, marriage, and the management of the body -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. A. Cases from Hilo District Court ; B. Accompanying tables.
- ISBN
- 0691009317 (cl. : alk. paper)
- 0691009325 (pb. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99030345^
- OCLC
- 41266257
- SCSB-10148130
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library