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Thinking Inside the Box: A Historian Among the Anthropologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

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Forum: Sally Engle Merry's Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law
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© 2004 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I would like to thank John Borneman, Hendrik Hartog, Annelise Riles, Christopher Tomlins, and Martha Woodmansee for their suggestions and comments.

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