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Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai'i (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) - Hardcover
Focusing on the intimate relationship between law, culture, and the production of social knowledge, these essays re-center law in social theory. 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.
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'This exciting [book]....will be a welcome addition to the fields of the anthropology of law and the anthropology of the Pacific, as well as colonial history and interdisciplinary work on rights movements and indigenous politics.' - Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine
About the Author:
Sally Engle Merry is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College; Donald Brenneis is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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- PublisherJames Currey
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0852559496
- ISBN 13 9780852559499
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages330
- EditorEngle Merry Sally, Brenneis Donald
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