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Law & Empire in the Pacific - Fiji and Hawai'i (Paperback)
Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
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Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism
and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of
ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the
United States and England respectively, the islands' indigenous
populations were forced to share resources with a small colonizing
elite and growing numbers of workers imported from South Asia. Both
societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through
reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation
complex in the nineteenth century. Colonial authorities, however,
constructed vastly different legal relationships with the
indigenous peoples in each setting, and policy toward imported
workers also differed in arrangements around land tenure and
political participation. The legacies of these colonial
arrangements are at the roots of the current crisis in both places.
Focusing on the intimate relationship between law, culture, and the
production of social knowledge, these essays re-center law in
social theory. The authors analyze the transition from chiefdom to
capitalism, colonizers' racial and governmental ideologies, land
and labor policies, and contemporary efforts to recuperate
indigenous culture and assert or maintain indigenous sovereignty.
Speaking to Fijian and Hawaiian circumstances, this volume
illuminates the role of legal and archival practice in constructing
ethnic and political identities and producing colonial and
anthropological knowledge.
General
Imprint: |
School of American Research Press,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
Release date: |
February 2004 |
Editors: |
Sally Engle Merry
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Dimensions: |
229 x 159mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
314 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-930618-25-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
General
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LSN: |
1-930618-25-5 |
Barcode: |
9781930618251 |
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