Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law /

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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 seducti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]
Colección:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Temas:
USA > Government
Hawaiians > Government relations.
Hawaiians > Legal status, laws, etc.
Hawaiians > Politics and government.
Customary law > Hawaii.
Hawaïens > Relations avec l'État.
Droit coutumier > Hawaii.
86.06 ethnological jurisprudence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Customary law
Hawaiians > Government relations
Hawaiians > Politics and government
Diplomatic relations
Außenpolitik
Geschichte
Kolonialismus
Politik
Rechtssystem
Recht.
Rechtsstelsels.
Hawaii.
United States of America.
Law.
Hawaiiens > Relations avec l'État.
Hawaiiens > Statut juridique.
Hawaiiens > Politique et gouvernement.
Droit coutumier > États-Unis > Hawaii.
United States > Foreign relations > Hawaii.
Hawaii > Foreign relations > United States.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Hawaii.
Hawaii > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
Hawaii
United States
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.
History (form)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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