Description
This is an important study which details a crucial (and often ignored) chapter in American legal history. It stands to make an important contribution to the anthropology of law, to the history of colonial legality, and to the methodology of ethnography in the archives. -- Annelise Riles, Cornell University This is a work of exceptional merit: substantively innovative and valuable, interpretively cogent and insightful, stylistically lucid and engaging. It reads very well as a significant account of the historical Hawaiian situation and as a major contribution to a multidimensional examination of colonial law and, especially, of a crucial and fairly singular American colonial enterprise. -- Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
About the Author
Sally Engle Merry is Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics in the Anthropology Department at Wellesley College. Her books include Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers, Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans, and The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation, coedited with Neal Milner. She is currently president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
Reviews
Winner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal History
Awards
Winner of James Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association 2002.
Book Information
ISBN 9780691009322
Author Sally Engle Merry
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 567g