Since Time Immemorial Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
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Biografisk notat
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.Since Time Immemorial Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
"Aimed at a scholarly audience, Yanna Yannakakis' <i>Since Time Immemorial</i> explores how Spanish authorities and indigenous elites navigated the ambiguous boundary between custom and law in16th-century Mexico. Deeply reasoned and argued, this book should be of interest to both history majors and experts interested in the legal framework of Spanish Mexico." - Noah Zachary (World History Encyclopedia) "Yannakakis has written a sophisticated and eminently readable text that could serve as an introduction to legal historical methods as well as a longue-durÉe study of Mexican Native communities. It is an exemplary model for thinking about law from the bottom up without losing sight of imperial foundations or a historically romanticizing a Native past." - Karen B. Graubart (Colonial Latin American Review) "<i>Since Time Immemorial</i> shows persuasively how preconquest custom shaped the laws governing the Indigenous world of postconquest Mexico. But it equally demonstrates the complex ways that traditional customs were manipulated to refect new realities as well as how new customs contributed to the evolution of legal practices in colonial society." - Jeremy Baskes (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe)
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
"Aimed at a scholarly audience, Yanna Yannakakis' <i>Since Time Immemorial</i> explores how Spanish authorities and indigenous elites navigated the ambiguous boundary between custom and law in16th-century Mexico. Deeply reasoned and argued, this book should be of interest to both history majors and experts interested in the legal framework of Spanish Mexico." - Noah Zachary (World History Encyclopedia) "Yannakakis has written a sophisticated and eminently readable text that could serve as an introduction to legal historical methods as well as a longue-durÉe study of Mexican Native communities. It is an exemplary model for thinking about law from the bottom up without losing sight of imperial foundations or a historically romanticizing a Native past." - Karen B. Graubart (Colonial Latin American Review) "<i>Since Time Immemorial</i> shows persuasively how preconquest custom shaped the laws governing the Indigenous world of postconquest Mexico. But it equally demonstrates the complex ways that traditional customs were manipulated to refect new realities as well as how new customs contributed to the evolution of legal practices in colonial society." - Jeremy Baskes (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe)
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