Since Time Immemorial Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines how, in the hands of Native litigants, the European category of custom-social...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Durham :
Duke University Press
[2023]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009742651806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Orthography
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries
- 1 Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World
- 2 Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca
- Part II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present Sixteenth through Seventeenth Centuries
- 3 Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom
- 4 The Old Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors
- Part III. Custom in Oaxaca's Courts of First Instance Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries
- 5 Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands
- 6 Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor
- 7 Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Native and Spanish Jurisdictions
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
