{"product_id":"since-time-immemorial-9781478019626","title":"Since Time Immemorial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYanna Yannakakis traces the creation of Indigenous custom as a legal category and its deployment as a strategy of resistance to empire in colonial Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aimed at a scholarly audience, Yanna Yannakakis' \u003ci\u003eSince Time Immemorial\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations: Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e 1. Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca  45\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present: Sixteenth through Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e 3. Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom  73\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Old Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors  109\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Custom in Oaxaca’s Courts of First Instance: Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e 5. Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands  139\u003cbr\u003e 6. Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor  171\u003cbr\u003e 7. Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Indian and Spanish Jurisdictions  199\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  229\u003cbr\u003e Notes  237\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  273\u003cbr\u003e Index  305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409011548503,"sku":"9781478019626","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/since-time-immemorial-9781478019626","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}