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-so...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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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/alma991009748233606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Custom, law, and empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic world
- Translating custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca
- Framing pre-Hispanic law and custom
- The old law, polygyny, and the customs of the ancestors
- Custom, possession, and jurisdiction in the boundary lands
- Custom as social contract : Native self-governance and labor
- Prescriptive custom : written labor agreements in Native and Spanish jurisdictions.
