The Appropriation of Native Status: Forming and Reforming Insiders and Outsiders in the Spanish Colonial World

This article examines the different meanings of native status in Spanish America. It argues that the classification of Indigenous peoples as »natives« was not meant to reflect a reality of indigeneity as many have assumed, but instead was geared towards attributing them with a particular legal...

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Main Author: Tamar Herzog
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 2014-01-01
Series:Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
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Online Access:http://data.rg.mpg.de/rechtsgeschichte/rg22_140herzog.pdf