Law and Empire in the Pacific Fiji and Hawai'i |
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| Editor:
| Merry, Sally Engle
Brenneis, Donald |
| Series title: | School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-930618-24-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2004 |
| Publisher: | School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $42.90 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionFocusing 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.