> Details

Yannakakis, Yanna [Author] ; Emory University

Since Time Immemorial

Reference
management

Bookmarks

Remove from
bookmarks

Share this on Whatsapp

Close

Bookmarks



You can manage bookmarks using lists, please log in to your user account for this.
  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Since Time Immemorial : Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Yannakakis, Yanna [VerfasserIn]
  • Corporation: Emory University
  • imprint: Durham: Duke University Press, [2023]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (353 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781478093572
  • ISBN: 9781478093572
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Customary law courts Mexico History ; Indians of Mexico Legal status, laws, etc History ; Indians of Mexico Politics and government ; Justice, Administration of Mexico History ; HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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 practice that through time takes on the normative power of law-acquired local meaning and changed over time. Yannakakis analyzes sources ranging from missionary and Inquisition records to Native pictorial histories, royal surveys, and Spanish and Native-language court and notarial documents. By encompassing historical actors who have been traditionally marginalized from legal histories and highlighting spaces outside the courts like Native communities, parishes, and missionary schools, she shows how imperial legal orders were not just imposed from above but also built on the ground through translation and implementation of legal concepts and procedures. Yannakakis argues that, ultimately, Indigenous claims to custom, which on the surface aimed to conserve the past, provided a means to contend with historical change and produce new rights for the future
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)