LEADER 02800nam 2200385 450 001 9910725062103321 005 20230625190727.0 010 $a1-4780-2425-9 035 $a(CKB)5590000000963074 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000963074 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000963074 100 $a20230625d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSince time immemorial $eNative custom and law in colonial Mexico /$fYanna Yannakakis 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-4780-1962-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCustom, 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. 330 $a"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. 517 $aSince Time Immemorial 606 $aIndians of Mexico$xPolitics and government 615 0$aIndians of Mexico$xPolitics and government. 676 $a323.1197072 700 $aYannakakis$b Yanna$01259105 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725062103321 996 $aSince time immemorial$93391224 997 $aUNINA