Global indios : the indigenous struggle for justice in sixteenth-century Spain / Nancy E. van Deusen.
2015
F1411 .V363 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Global indios : the indigenous struggle for justice in sixteenth-century Spain / Nancy E. van Deusen.
Author
Van Deusen, Nancy E.
ISBN
9780822358589 (paperback)
0822358581 (paperback)
9780822358473 (hardcover)
0822358476 (hardcover)
9780822375692 (electronic book)
0822375699 (electronic book)
0822358581 (paperback)
9780822358473 (hardcover)
0822358476 (hardcover)
9780822375692 (electronic book)
0822375699 (electronic book)
Published
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 336 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number
F1411 .V363 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
946/.04
Summary
In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios--indigineous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire--were enslaved and relocated throughtout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In Global Indios Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom. Because plaintiffs had to prove their indio-ness in a Spanish imperial context, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not--especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. Van deusen demonstrates that the categories of free and slave were often not easily defined, and she forces a rethinking of the meaning of indio in ways that emphasize the need to situate colonial Spanish American indigenous subjects in a global context. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-317) and index.
Series
Narrating native histories.
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Table of Contents
All the world in a village: Carmona
Crossing the Atlantic and entering households
Small victories: Gregorio López and the reforms of the 1540s
Into the courtroom
Narratives of territorial belonging, just war, and ransom
Identifying indios
Transimperial indios.
Crossing the Atlantic and entering households
Small victories: Gregorio López and the reforms of the 1540s
Into the courtroom
Narratives of territorial belonging, just war, and ransom
Identifying indios
Transimperial indios.