Empire of law and Indian justice in colonial Mexico
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Empire of law and Indian justice in colonial Mexico
Stanford University Press, 2008
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Bibliography: p. [351]-365
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Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. By juxtaposing hundreds of case records with written laws and treatises, Owensby reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to a distant king. Several chapters elucidate central concepts of Indian claimants in their encounter with the law over the seventeenth century-royal protection, possession of property, liberty, notions of guilt, village autonomy and self-rule, and subjecthood. Owensby concludes that Indian engagement with Spanish law was the first early modern experiment in cosmopolitan legality, one that faced the problem of difference head on and sought to bridge the local and the international. In so doing, it enabled indigenous claimants to forge a colonial politics of justice that opened up space for a conversation between colonial rulers and ruled.
目次
Contents Acknowledgments 000 Chapter 1 Opening 000 Chapter 2 Ordering the Circumstances of Encounter 000 Chapter 3 Help Us and Protect Us 000 Chapter 4 Precarious Possessions 000 Chapter 5 Liberty, Not Servitude 000 Chapter 6 Of Guilt and Punishment 000 Chapter 7 Voices in the Republic 000 Chapter 8 Rebellious Subjects 000 Chapter 9 Summation and Beyond 000 Notes 000 Sources Cited 000 Index 000
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