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The Cultural Power of Law? Conjunctive Readings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Bill Maurer
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Forum: Sally Engle Merry's Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law
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Law & Society Review , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 843 - 850
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© 2004 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Susan Bibler Coutin, Tom Boellstorff, Sally Merry, and Barbara Yngvesson for comments on this commentary.

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