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Colonizing Hawai'i : The Cultural Power of Law / Sally Engle Merry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ; 10Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 23 halftones 1 map 4 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691221984
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.9 22
LOC classification:
  • DU624.65
  • DU624.65 .M47 2000eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY -- ONE Introduction -- PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS IN A CONTACT ZONE: NEW ENGLAND MISSIONARIES, LAWYERS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW, 1820-1852 -- TWO The Process of Legal Transformation -- THREE The First Transition: Religious Law -- FOUR The Second Transition: Secular Law -- PART TWO: LOCAL PRACTICES OF POLICING AND JUDGING IN HILO, HAWAI'I -- FIVE The Social History of a Plantation Town -- SIX Judges and Caseloads in Hilo -- SEVEN Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations -- EIGHT Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body -- NINE Conclusions -- APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY -- ONE Introduction -- PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS IN A CONTACT ZONE: NEW ENGLAND MISSIONARIES, LAWYERS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW, 1820-1852 -- TWO The Process of Legal Transformation -- THREE The First Transition: Religious Law -- FOUR The Second Transition: Secular Law -- PART TWO: LOCAL PRACTICES OF POLICING AND JUDGING IN HILO, HAWAI'I -- FIVE The Social History of a Plantation Town -- SIX Judges and Caseloads in Hilo -- SEVEN Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations -- EIGHT Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body -- NINE Conclusions -- APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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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 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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