Since Time Immemorial

Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Yanna Yannakakis

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-05-05
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt477 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478019626

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction xiiiPart I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations: Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries1. Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World 232. Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca 45Part II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present: Sixteenth through Seventeenth Centuries3. Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom 734. The Old Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors 109Part III. Custom in Oaxaca’s Courts of First Instance: Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries5. Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands 1396. Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor 1717. Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Indian and Spanish Jurisdictions 199Epilogue 229Notes 237Bibliography 273Index 305

"Aimed at a scholarly audience, Yanna Yannakakis' Since Time Immemorial 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) "Since Time Immemorial 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)