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"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-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 picto
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- Author
- Yanna Yannakakis
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478093572
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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