Colonizing Hawai'i The Cultural Power of Law

Name: Colonizing Hawai'i The Cultural Power of Law
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ISBN: 9780691009322

ISBN-10: 0691009325

ISBN-13: 9780691009322

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sally Engle Merry

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How does law transform family, sexuality and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonising process? This book describes how Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Language and Terminology



Introduction



Encounters in a Contact Zone: New England Missionaries, Lawyers, and the Appropriation of Anglo-American Law, 1820-1852



The Process of Legal Transformation



The First Transition: Religious Law



The Second Transition: Secular Law



Local Practices of Policing and Judging in Hilo, Hawai'i



The Social History of a Plantation Town



Judges and Caseloads in Hilo



Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations



Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body



Conclusions


Appendixes



Cases from Hilo District Court



Accompanying Tables


Notes


References


Index