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Contents List of Figures and Tables ix 1 Introduction 3 Sally Engle Merry and Donald Brenneis 2 A Chief Does Not Rule Land; He Rules People (Luganda Proverb) 35 Jane F. Collier 3 Gordon Was No Amateur: Imperial Legal Strategies in the Colonization of Fiji 61 John D. Kelly 4 Talking Back to Law and Empire: Hula in Hawaiian-Language Literature in 1861 101 Noenoe K. Silva 5 Law and Identity in an American Colony 123 Sally Engle Merry 6 Promised Lands: From Colonial Lawgiving to Postcolonial Takeovers in Fiji 153 Martha Kaplan 7 Law as Object 187 Annelise Riles 8. Ku\‘e\ and Ku\‘oko‘a: History, Law, and Other Faiths 213 Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio vii CONTENTS viii 9 Delegating Closure 239 Hirokazu Miyazaki 10 Heartbreak Islands: Reflections on Fiji in Transition 261 Brij V. Lal References 281 Index 305 ...