Colonizing Hawai'i - The Cultural Power of Law

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sally Engle Merry is Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics in the Anthropology Department at Wellesley College. Her books include Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers, Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans, and The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation, coedited with Neal Milner. She is currently president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Zusatztext

"Winner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal History"

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sally Merry, Sally Engle Merry, Merry Sally Engle
• Mitarbeit: Nicholas Dirks (Herausgeber), Sally Engle Merry (Herausgeber), Sherry Ortner (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.12.1999
• EAN: 9780691009322
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00932-2
• Seiten: 432
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Princeton Studies in Culture/P; Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde; Hawaii, Cultural Studies, LAW / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social groups, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, National liberation and independence, Hawaiian Islands, Social groups, communities and identities, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of)