Yanna Yannakakis

Since Time Immemorial

Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yanna Yannakakis traces the creation of Indigenous custom as a legal category and its deployment as a strategy of resistance to empire in colonial Mexico.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019626
• ISBN-10: 147801962X
• Artikelnr.: 64199342

Autorenporträt

Yanna Yannakakis is Associate Professor of History at Emory University, author of The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca, and coeditor of Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  xiii
Part I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations: Twelfth through Seventeenth
Centuries
1. Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World  23
2. Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca  45
Part II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present: Sixteenth
through Seventeenth Centuries
3. Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom  73
4. The Old Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors  109
Part III. Custom in Oaxaca’s Courts of First Instance: Seventeenth through
Eighteenth Centuries
5. Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands  139
6. Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor  171
7. Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Indian and Spanish
Jurisdictions  199
Epilogue  229
Notes  237
Bibliography  273
Index  305