Law & Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai`i

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Index Page references followed by fig indicate an illustrated figure. ABCFM (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), 105 Aberdeen, Lord, 73 Allardyce, W. L., 249 ALTA (Agricultural Landlords and Tenants Act) [Fiji, 1970], 156 ALTO (Agricultural Landlords and Tenants Ordinance) [Fiji, 1970], 155–56 American Economic Association, 136 Anare Matahau & Associates, 246 Ancient Law (Maine), 77–78, 80 anthropological knowledge: different legal/policy interests and, 28–29; influencing Gordon, 25; law as object and, 190, 206–10; objectification of practices of, 188–89; producing, 27–29 Ariyoshi, G., 142 Armstrong, R., 104, 107 Arnold, M., 261 Asian settlers: attitudes of haoles toward, 126–27, 134; emphasis on distinction between Native Hawaiians and, 145–46; history of exclusion against, 142; “local” replaced by dichotomy of indigenous and, 146; population statistics on, 151n.4 Austin, J., 79, 81 Bainimarama, F., 179, 181–82, 269 Bavadra, T., 164, 264 Bavou, J., 172–73, 176 Bayly, C. A., 83 Bayonet Constitution (1887) [Kingdom of Hawai‘i], 12, 15, 233, 234 Beckwith, M., 107 Belshaw, C. S., 264 Bentham, J., 81 Bhagvada Gita, 273 Bishop Estate investigation (Hawai‘i, 1996), 217 Bishop Museum, 109 Blount report (1890s), 143 Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Title (1845), 220 Bohman, J., 240 Brenneis, D., 3, 22, 23, 24, 55 brother-sister marriages, 58n.6 Burness, T., 170, 171 Byron, Lord, 226 Cakobau, A. L., 274 Cakobau (Fiji chief), 161, 171 Cakobau, R. E., 270 Cakobau, R. G., 270 Calvinist Congregational Church, 105–6 cargo cults, 50 Carnarvon, Lord, 65, 66, 70, 75, 193 Cayetano, Rice v., 149, 217, 233 CCF (Citizens Constitutional Forum) [Fiji], 276 Center for Hawaiian Studies, 216, 228 ceremonies: conceptual oppositions celebrated in, 39–41; genealogical manipulation as means for mobilizing , 38–39. See also gift exchanges with protocol Certificate of Title 6142 (Fiji), 199fig Chapman, J. K., 77 Chaudhry, M., 271 chiefdom cultural logic: chiefs’ labor exploitation explained by, 50; ranking and, 36–37fig; requiring chiefs to obtain Western valued items, 49–50, 130 chiefdom political economy: based on usufruct/estates of administration, 37–38; in the colonial encounter, 48–50; conceptual oppositions celebrated in, 39–42; conflicting values of Western court system and, 54–57; cultural logic/ranking of imaginary, 36–37fig, 49–50; evolution to nationality from, 129–34; family conclaves of, 56–57; genealogical manipulation and, 38–39, 44, 130; impact of Christianity on, 165–66; lack of I and Me distinction in, 42; liberalcapitalist equivalent of, 42–48; 305 Index 306 portrayed as recognizing collective liability, 60n.18; tripartite structure of, 39; Western misinterpretation of law in, 50–57 chiefdoms ideal-typic model: liberal capitalism model and, 42–48; overview of, 36–42; supplemented with model of liberal capitalism, 35–36 chiefs: Christianity conversion by, 49; exploitation of commoners’ labor by, 50; as ruling land not people, 58n.1 Christianity: conversion by chiefs to, 49; ethnic Fijians’ entitlement associated with, 176–80; of Fijian chiefs, 165–66; Fijian conversion to Methodist, 161, 162, 275; Navosavakadua’s adaptation of, 171; ownership of Fijian land linked to, 164–69. See also missionaries (Fiji); missionaries (Hawai‘i) citizenship: Hawaiian annexation granting, 222; Hawaiian sovereignty movement as threat to, 218; Hawaiian Territory period’s notion of, 134; Indo-Fijian resentment over unequal, 273; Kingdom of Hawai‘i criteria for, 33, 219; KLH vs. Council of Regency over issue of, 223–25, 231; laws defining, 20; voting power and shifting rules of, 141–42 Cohn, B., 81, 239 Collier, J. F., 11, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 35, 125, 126 colonialism. See Fiji colonial period; Hawaiian colonial period; Western colonialism Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR): complaints about British land policies by, 162; Gordon’s pressure on, 76; investments in Fiji by, 12, 63; land sold/leased to, 170, 173–74 Coman, K., 136 commoners: chiefs’ labor exploitation of, 50; land worked by Hawaiian, 130; taxes paid with gifts by, 53–54 conceptual opposition: celebrated in dualistic ritual systems, 39–40; of centers / peripheries, 41–42; between conquering foreign chiefs/ conquered people, 40–41; liberal capitalism and nature/culture , 46–47; liberal capitalism and public/private spheres, 47; of man-made and divine laws, 60n.16 Cook, Captain, 130 Cooper, G., 142 Council of Regency (COR): citizenship as defined by, 224–25, 231; claims of occupation by, 220–21; comparing strategies of KLH and, 214, 221–22, 223–25, 230–33; origins of Kingdom of Hawai‘i, 220–21; regarding political history of...