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Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai`i

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Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai`i - Merry, Sally Engle (Editor), and Brenneis, Donald (Editor)
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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 practice in constructing ethnic and ...

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Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai`i 2004, School for Advanced Research Press

ISBN-13: 9781930618244

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Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai`i 2004, School for Advanced Research Press

ISBN-13: 9781930618251

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