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portada Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of law (Princeton Studies in Culture
Type
Physical Book
Year
1999
Language
English
Pages
371
Format
Paperback
Weight
1.50
ISBN
0691009325
ISBN13
9780691009322

Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of law (Princeton Studies in Culture

Sally Engle Merry (Author) · Princeton University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of law (Princeton Studies in Culture"

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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