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...
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Author: Yanna Yannakakis
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Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico by Yannakakis, Yanna

Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico

€63,86

Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico

€63,86
Author: Yanna Yannakakis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Yanna Yannakakis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 05/05/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781478019626

About the Author
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.

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