Title Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000] ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations, 1 map Series Princeton studies in culture/power/history Princeton studies in culture/power/history. Contents A note on language and terminology -- Part 1: Encounters in a contact zone : New England missionaries, lawyers, and the appropriation of Ango-American law, 1820-1852. The process of legal transformation ; The first transition : religious law ; The second transition : secular law -- Part 2: Local practices of policing and judging in Hilo, Hawai'i. The social history of a planation town ; Judges and caseloads in Hilo ; Protest and the law on the Hilo Sugar Planation ; Sexuality, marriage, and the management of the body -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. A. Cases from Hilo District Court ; B. Accompanying tables A note on language and terminology -- Part 1: Encounters in a contact zone : New England missionaries, lawyers, and the appropriation of Anglo-American law, 1820-1852. The process of legal transformation ; The first transition : religious law ; The second transition : secular law -- Part 2: Local practices of policing and judging in Hilo, Hawai'i. The social history of a planation town ; Judges and caseloads in Hilo ; Protest and the law on the Hilo Sugar Plantation ; Sexuality, marriage, and the management of the body -- Conclusion -- Appendices. A. Cases from Hilo District Court ; B. Accompanying tables Summary 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 Analysis Afghanistan Baker, James Blackwell, David Caucus-race Chappaquiddick Durkheim, Emile Ford, Gerald Gephardt, Richard Hart, Gary Hodgson, Godfrey Houston Chronicle Iran hostage crisis Jordan, Hamilton Joslyn, Richard Kemp, Jack Kennedy, Robert Lydon, Christopher McGovern-Fraser commission Nevada primary Ohio primary Opus (penguin) Reagan, Ronald Sanford, Terry ambiguity approval voting brokered convention campaign effects campaign effort character traits contagion conventions cue-taking deathwatch coverage delegates environmental protection expectations feeling thermometer foreign policy government services horse race information labor unions liberalism scores logit analysis media use momentum nuclear power paradox of voting party identification projection representation rules Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-363) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT USA Government gnd Subject Hawaiians -- Government relations Hawaiians -- Legal status, laws, etc Hawaiians -- Politics and government Customary law -- Hawaii 86.06 ethnological jurisprudence. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Customary law Hawaiians -- Government relations Hawaiians -- Legal status, laws, etc. Hawaiians -- Politics and government Diplomatic relations Außenpolitik Geschichte Kolonialismus Politik Rechtssystem Recht. Rechtsstelsels. Hawaiians -- Government relations. Hawaiians -- Legal status, laws, etc. Hawaiians -- Politics and government. Customary law -- Hawaii. Hawaii. United States of America. Law. Hawaiiens -- Relations avec l'État. Hawaiiens -- Statut juridique. Hawaiiens -- Politique et gouvernement. Droit coutumier -- États-Unis -- Hawaii. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Hawaii Hawaii -- Foreign relations -- United States Subject Hawaii United States Hawaii United States -- Foreign relations -- Hawaii. Hawaii -- Foreign relations -- United States. Genre/Form History (form) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691221984 0691221987

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