ISBN:
1-930618-25-5
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978-1-930618-25-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 313 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [63]
Keywords:
Hawaii Fidschi-Insel
;
Geschichte
;
Regierung
;
Gesetzgebung
Abstract:
Hawai`i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the United States and England respectively, the islands` indigenous populations were forced to share resources with a small colonizing elite and growing numbers of workers imported from South Asia. Both societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation complex in the nineteenth century. Colonial authorities, however, constructed vastly different legal relationships with the indigenous peoples in each setting, and policy toward imported workers also differed in arrangements around land tenure and political participation. The legacies of these colonial arrangements are at the roots of the current crisis in both places.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. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables -- 1. Introduction, Sally Engle Merry and Donald Brenneis -- 2. Chief does not rule land / Jane F. Collier -- 3. Gordon was no amateur / John D. Kelly -- 4. Talking back to law and empire / Noenoe K. Silva -- 5. Law and identity in an American colony / Sally Engle Merry -- 6. Promised lands / Martha Kaplan -- 7. Law as object / Annelise Riles -- 8. Ku'e? Ku'oko'a / Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio -- 9. Delegating closure / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- 10. Heartbreak Islands / Brij V. Lal -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 281-303"School of American Research advanced seminar Law and Empire in the Pacific: Intersections of Culture and Legality, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 18-22, 2001" (letzte Seite)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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