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. Description: xii, 371 pISBN:

9780691009322

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23 996.9

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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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	996.9 ME-C (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		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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