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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