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Author Yannakakis, Yanna, 1967- author.

Title Since time immemorial : Native custom and law in colonial Mexico / Yanna Yannakakis.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Customary law courts -- Mexico -- History.
Justice, Administration of -- Mexico -- History.
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00969609
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government.
Justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00985154
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Mexico -- Politics and government.
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Customary law courts. (OCoLC)fst00885525
Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00969585
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
Added Title Native custom and law in colonial Mexico
Other Form: Print version: Yannakakis, Yanna, 1967- Since time immemorial. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478019626 9781478016984 (DLC) 2022041591 (OCoLC)1330198208
ISBN 9781478024255 (electronic book)
1478024259 (electronic book)
9781478093572 (electronic book other)
1478093579 (electronic book other)
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