Law & Empire in the Pacific - Fiji and Hawai'i (Paperback)

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.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Release date:	February 2004
Editors:	Sally Engle Merry
Dimensions:	229 x 159mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	314
ISBN-13:	978-1-930618-25-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-930618-25-5
Barcode:	9781930618251

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