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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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 political identities and producing colonial and anthropological knowledge.
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New. Fiji and Hawai'i are a few thousand miles apart, as are their fates as neocolonial entities. Both were once led by powerful indigenous chiefs, both were colonized, both native populations were suppressed, and both emerged under the shadow of their respective colonizers. Editor(s): Merry, Sally Engle; Brenneis, Donald. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680. 2004. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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