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Las llamas de Tapacarí: un documento judicial de un alcalde de indios en la Audiencia de Charcas, 1580
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-14)
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«Nos traen tan avasallados hasta quitarnos nuestro señorío»: cabildos mayas, control local y representación legal en el Yucatán del siglo XVI
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-14)
In Spanish Colonial America, as well as in the Iberian Peninsula at the same time, different jurisdictions intertwined in the same space. By way of consequence, the complex political organization of the New World was ...
«De sangre noble y hábiles costumbres»: etnicidad indígena y gobierno en México Tenochtitlan
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-14)
This essay will discuss the unusual rise to power of don Bartolomé Cortés y Mendoza Axaycatzin, who was appointed by viceroy Cadereita to serve as governor of Mexico Tenochtitlan in 1636 without mandate from the community. ...
Cabildos de naturales en el ocaso colonial: jurisdicción, posesión y defensa del espacio étnico
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-14)
This essay examines important changes in the jurisdiction of the Republic of the Indians in late colonial Peru by problematizing the concept of possession and usufruct of communal lands in the Indian towns after 1777, when ...
Chinamitales: defensores y justicias k’ichee’ en las comunidades indígenas del altiplano de Guatemala colonial
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-14)
The present article examines the functions of indigenous advocates whose position as ward leaders (chinamitales) in K’ichee’ societies existed in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and continued into the colonial nineteenth century ...
Guardianes de la real justicia: alcaldes de indios, costumbre y justicia local en Huarochirí colonial
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-14)
This essay examines the local construction of law in San Damián de Urotambo—an indigenous community in Huarochirí—in the early seventeenth century. In Andean towns, the alcaldes (magistrates), commonly members of the local ...