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oapen-20.500.12657-327232022-04-26T12:25:54Z The Rahui: Legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories Bambridge, Tamatoa cultural identity resource management eastern polynesia rahui Coconut Lagoon Marquesas Islands Tapu (Polynesian culture) bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MK Oceania::1MKP Polynesia bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies::JFSL9 Indigenous peoples bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAQ Law & society 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. 2016-05-06 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:17:35Z 2020-04-01T14:17:35Z 2016 book 607554 OCN: 1135532007 9781925022797 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32723 eng application/pdf n/a 607554.pdf http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific-series/rahui ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_607554 10.26530/OAPEN_607554 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781925022797 open access
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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.
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