Lo que nos dejaron nuestros padres, nuestros abuelos»: retórica y praxis procesal alrededor de los usos y costumbres indígenas en la Nueva España temprana
Abstract:El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo explorar las múltiples significaciones que revistió el concepto «usos y costumbres» indígenas en el contexto de reorganización cultural y política que el centro de México y Yucatán sufrieron en el siglo XVI. Para ello, se analiza un amplio abanico de fuentes, como diccionarios coloniales, manuales pastorales y de adoctrinamiento misionero, juicios y ordenanzas para el gobierno de tales pueblos de indios. Se concluye que el alto grado de flexibilidad conceptual y práctica… Show more
“…In some cases, the settlers' lawyers appealed to this concept to defend their own practices, such as the use of indigenous porters called tamemes for transporting the tributes, which indigenous peoples sought to abolish. 149 Local Languages as an Arena for Ever-Shifting and Contested Normative Orders…”
According to Silvia Sebastiani, the nineteenth-century emergence of racial anthropology took place in "a new Atlantic and trans-imperial perspective" in which "the Enlightenment debate about the 'science of man'" was transformed into "a dispute about the inferiority of human races versus the equality of human beings." S. Sebastiani, "Anthropology beyond Empires:
“…In some cases, the settlers' lawyers appealed to this concept to defend their own practices, such as the use of indigenous porters called tamemes for transporting the tributes, which indigenous peoples sought to abolish. 149 Local Languages as an Arena for Ever-Shifting and Contested Normative Orders…”
According to Silvia Sebastiani, the nineteenth-century emergence of racial anthropology took place in "a new Atlantic and trans-imperial perspective" in which "the Enlightenment debate about the 'science of man'" was transformed into "a dispute about the inferiority of human races versus the equality of human beings." S. Sebastiani, "Anthropology beyond Empires:
Est-il temps de déconstruire les mythes de l'histoire du droit français?," Clio@Thémis 5 (2012), 1-19, who criticizes the move to equate the history of medieval and early modern law with the history of the state.
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