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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.
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| A Note on Language and Terminology | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Encounters in a Contact Zone: New England Missionaries, Lawyers, and the Appropriation of Anglo-American Law, 1820-1852 | |
| The Process of Legal Transformation | p. 35 |
| The First Transition: Religious Law | p. 63 |
| The Second Transition: Secular Law | p. 86 |
| Local Practices of Policing and Judging in Hilo, Hawai'i | |
| The Social History of a Plantation Town | p. 117 |
| Judges and Caseloads in Hilo | p. 145 |
| Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations | p. 207 |
| Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body | p. 221 |
| Conclusions | p. 258 |
| Appendixes | |
| Cases from Hilo District Court | p. 269 |
| Accompanying Tables | p. 325 |
| Notes | p. 331 |
| References | p. 349 |
| Index | p. 365 |
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ISBN: 9780691009322
ISBN-10: 0691009325
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History (Paperback)
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 390
Published: 21st December 1999
Dimensions (cm): 23.1 x 15.7
x 2.524
Weight (kg): 0.562
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