| Description |
1 online resource |
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Pacific series |
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Pacific series.
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| Contents |
Intro; Foreword; The rahui: A tool for environmental protection or for political assertion?; Tapu and rahui: Traditions and pluralistic organisation of society; Political power and rahui in ancient Polynesian society; Ancient magic and religious trends of the rāhui on the atoll of Anaa, Tuamotu; Tapu and kahui in the Marquesas; I uta i tai -- a preliminary account of ra'ui on Mangaia, Cook Islands; Technical exploitation and 'ritual' management of resources in Napuka and Tepoto (Tuamotu Archipelago); The law of rahui in the Society Islands; Rahui today as state-custom pluralism |
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Protection of natural resources through a sacred prohibition: The rahui on Rapa itiFrom traditional to modern management in Fakarava; European contact and systems of governance on Tongareva; Traditional marine resources and their use in contemporary Hawai'i; Providing for rāhui in the law of Aotearoa New Zealand; Uncanny rights and the ambiguity of state authority in the Gambier Islands; What are the lessons to be learned from the rahui and legal pluralism? The political and environmental efficacy of legal pluralism; What are the consequences of rahui?; References |
| Summary |
This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for Indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some Indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by Indigenous communities |
| Analysis |
cultural identity |
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resource management |
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eastern polynesia |
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rahui |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title from Directory of Open Access Books; viewed on 2020-08-13 |
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English |
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Legal polycentricity -- Polynesia
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Customary law -- Polynesia
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Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation -- Polynesia
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Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
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Ethnic studies.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Jurisprudence and general issues.
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Law and society.
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Law.
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Oceania.
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Polynesia.
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Social groups.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation
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Customary law
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Legal polycentricity
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Polynesia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bambridge, Tamatoa, editor
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| LC no. |
2019717706 |
| ISBN |
9781925022919 |
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1925022919 |
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9781925022797 |
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192502279X |
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