LEADER 03810nam 22005055 450 001 996565563703316 005 20231209095929.0 010 $a1-4780-9357-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478093572 035 $a(CKB)26809521300041 035 $a(DE-B1597)671877 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478093572 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926809521300041 100 $a20231209h20232023 fg 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, $d[2023] 210 4$d2023 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 311 $a9781478016984 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on Orthography -- $tMaps -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries -- $t1 Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World -- $t2 Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca -- $tPart II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present Sixteenth through Seventeenth Centuries -- $t3 Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom -- $t4 The Old Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors -- $tPart III. Custom in Oaxaca's Courts of First Instance Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries -- $t5 Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands -- $t6 Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor -- $t7 Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Native and Spanish Jurisdictions -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aCustomary law courts$zMexico$xHistory 606 $aIndians of Mexico$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory 606 $aIndians of Mexico$xPolitics and government 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zMexico$xHistory 606 $aHISTORY / Latin America / Mexico$2bisacsh 615 0$aCustomary law courts$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of Mexico$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of Mexico$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aJustice, Administration of$xHistory. 615 7$aHISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. 676 $a347.72/0108997 700 $aYannakakis$b Yanna, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01259105 712 02$aEmory University$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996565563703316 996 $aSince time immemorial$93391224 997 $aUNISA