Since time immemorial : : Native custom and law in colonial Mexico / / Yanna Yannakakis.
"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-so...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Custom, 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.