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Title The Rahui : legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories / edited by Tamatoa Bambridge.

Publication Info. Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Pacific series
Pacific series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.
Contents Intro; Foreword; The rahui: A tool for environmental protection or for political assertion?; Tapu and rahui: Traditions and pluralistic organisation of society; Political power and rahui in ancient Polynesian society; Ancient magic and religious trends of the rāhui on the atoll of Anaa, Tuamotu; Tapu and kahui in the Marquesas; I uta i tai -- a preliminary account of ra'ui on Mangaia, Cook Islands; Technical exploitation and 'ritual' management of resources in Napuka and Tepoto (Tuamotu Archipelago); The law of rahui in the Society Islands; Rahui today as state-custom pluralism.
Protection of natural resources through a sacred prohibition: The rahui on Rapa itiFrom traditional to modern management in Fakarava; European contact and systems of governance on Tongareva; Traditional marine resources and their use in contemporary Hawai'i; Providing for rāhui in the law of Aotearoa New Zealand; Uncanny rights and the ambiguity of state authority in the Gambier Islands; What are the lessons to be learned from the rahui and legal pluralism? The political and environmental efficacy of legal pluralism; What are the consequences of rahui?; References.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Legal polycentricity -- Polynesia.
Legal polycentricity.
Polynesia.
Customary law -- Polynesia.
Customary law.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation -- Polynesia.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation.
Indexed Term cultural identity.
resource management.
eastern polynesia.
rahui.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Bambridge, Tamatoa, editor.
In: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN
Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: The Rahui Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2016] 9781925022797 (OCoLC)931672261
ISBN 9781925022919 (ebook)
1925022919
9781925022797 (paperback)
192502279X
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_607554