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Sally engle merry reveals how, in hawaii, indigenous hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted angloamerican law as global movements of capitalism, christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. Although gender violence was not a major public issue in 19thcentury hawaii, a substantial number of cases arrived at the lower courts. She is also a faculty director of the center for human rights and. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization.

Legal consciousness among workingclass americans, and the possibility of popular justice. Pdf setha low, sally engle merry, and contributors revisit the problems and possibilities of engaged anthropology in this comprehensive. Global human rights and local social movements in a legally. Human rights law and the demonization of culture and. The cultural process of law and getting justice and getting even, the latter published by the university of chicago press. Offenders were typically prosecuted promptly and punished. Measuring violence against women sally engle merry as we have seen, creating systems of measurement is a deeply political as well as a technical process. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Merry, sally engle, the meaning and management of danger in a highcrime urban neighborhood. The quiet power of indicators edited by sally engle merry.

There are indicators of rule of law, indicators of violence against women, and indicators of economic development, among many others. Sally engle merry is silver professor and professor of anthropology at new york university. The nature of culture has been radically retheorized. Sally engle merry, human rights and gender violence. Sally engle merry, new york university, anthropology department, faculty member. Law, culture, and cultural appropriation by sally engle merry. Sally engle merry is silver professor of anthropology at new york university. She is also associate department chair, faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global justice at the new york university school of law, and past president of the american ethnological society. Legal consciousness among workingclass americans chicago. She is also associate department chair, faculty co. Jul 28, 2006 sally engle merry is professor of anthropology, wellesley college, wellesley, massachusetts. Cambridge core sociolegal studies the quiet power of indicators edited by sally engle merry. The law was a cornerstone of the socalled civilizing process of nineteenthcentury colonialism.

Jul 19, 2016 discover book depositorys huge selection of sally engle merry books online. Human rights and gender violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. Translating international law into local justice chicago series in law and society merry, sally engle on. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, merry. I particularly benefited from the insights on religion, sexuality and women. Are human rights losing their ideological grip on citizens, activists, policymakers, and institutions worldwide. Introduction the intellectual odyssey of the concept of legal pluralism moves from the discovery of indigenous forms of law among remote african villagers and new guinea tribesmen to debates concerning the pluralistic qualities of law under advanced capitalism. The global of sally engle merry, silver of new york. Sally engle merry is silver professor of anthropology at nyu.

Sally engle merry is currently considered a single author. Her research explores the role of law in urban life in the u. In the last decade, the concept of legal pluralism has been applied to the study of social. The making of human rights policy on violence against women, anthropology news 48, 2324. How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process. Human rights and gender violence sally engle merry pdf. International library of essays in law and society. Yet over the last decade, the concept of culture on which many of these insights depend has come under siege. A case study of american community mediation, coedited with neal milner. Clearly, the production of such global norms is a social process, deeply. Translating international law into local justice, sally engle merry is published by university of chicago press. Governmentality and gender violence in hawaii in historical. Overdrive rakuten overdrive borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. She is also associate department chair, faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global.

Sally engle merry is professor of anthropology, wellesley college, wellesley, massachusetts. Human rights transformation in practice seeks to answer this question in an edited volume that insists on the continued relevance of. Dixon notes that some evidence indicates that both genders are aggressive in marital situations but that women are more often and more seriously injured by fights than men. Translating international law into local justice is a significant contribution to the study of genderoriented violence in the context of global north and global south dialogues for the advancement of universal. Pdf human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. Life in a neighborhood of strangers, getting justice and getting even. She is also a faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global justice at the new york university school of law. She is the author of several books, including colonizing hawaii.

Clearly, the production of such global norms is a social process, deeply shaped by local social movements. Sally engle merry provides a good articulation of the inevitable paradoxes facing the hawaiian nation in the 19th century visavis encroaching american imperialism and colonization. Sally starr engle merry is an american anthropologist. Indicators, human rights, and global governance berkeley law. The anthropology of human rights nyu wagner graduate school. Merry, sally engle, getting justice and getting even. Introduction the intellectual odyssey of the concept of legal pluralism moves from the discovery of indigenous forms of law among re mote african villagers and new guinea tribesmen to debates con cerning the pluralistic qualities of law under advanced capitalism. Sally engle merry university of california, irvine.

Sally engle merry reveals how, in hawaii, indigenous hawaiian law was. There are difficult questions about what to measure, how to categorize phenomena, how much context to consider, and how to achieve commensurability despite variation. With superb attentiveness to such an historical trajectory of human rights, sally engle merrys book human rights and gender violence. Sally engle merry institute for international law and justice. Bunting, annie and merry, sally engle, global regulation and local political struggles. Jul 27, 2009 sally engle merry is professor in the department of anthropology and the institute for law and society at new york university. Womens human rights and social movements in new york city with sally merry, peggy levitt and diana h. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Anthropology department first floor conference room. Sally engle merry, silver professor, department of anthropology.

Sally engle merry is professor of anthropology in the department of anthropology, new york university 25 waverly place, new york. Sally engle merry is silver professor of anthropology. She is the author of numerous books and articles on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Full text views reflects the number of pdf downloads, pdfs. With the seductions of quantification, leading legal anthropologist sally engle merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking.