Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry.

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Merry, Sally Engle [author]

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN:

9780691009322

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Summary: "How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title 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."--

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Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	996.9 ME-C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	07/12/2024	152638

"How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title 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."--

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