The Rahui : legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories /

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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 lite...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Bambridge, Tamatoa (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2016]
Collection:Pacific series.
Sujets:
Legal polycentricity > Polynesia.
Customary law > Polynesia.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Law and legislation > Polynesia.
Pluralisme juridique > Polynésie.
Droit coutumier > Polynésie.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Ethnic studies.
Indigenous peoples.
Jurisprudence and general issues.
Law and society.
Law.
Oceania.
Polynesia.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Law and legislation
Customary law
Legal polycentricity
Polynesia
cultural identity.
resource management.
eastern polynesia.
rahui.
History
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Table des matières:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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