Indigenous rights in Latin America: a legal historical perspective
- According to international and national constitutional law, indigenous peoples in most Latin American countries have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions. As a consequence of this and of a long and ongoing process of political debate and recognition, ever more indigenous peoples are practicing their own laws, following their own cultural traditions and customs. In doing so, they often draw on history, recreating their identities and reconstructing their distinct legal pasts. At the same time, historical research has increasingly pointed out the intense interaction between indigenous peoples and European invaders during colonial period. It has become clear that it is difficult to draw a clear line between purely ‘indigenous’ and ‘colonial’ legal traditions due to the hybridisation of indigenous and colonial laws and legal practices. The aim of this paper is to introduce this historiography and its relevance to law and to present some methodological challenges in writing the history of indigenous rights in Latin America resulting from this shift in (legal) historiography.
Author: | Thomas DuveORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-450369 |
URL: | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2976301 |
Parent Title (English): | Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2017-02 |
Publisher: | Social Science Electronic Publishing |
Place of publication: | [S.l.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Contributing Corporation: | Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte |
Release Date: | 2017/11/10 |
Psyndex Keyword: | Colonial Latin America; Indigenous Rights; Legal History; Legal Pluralism |
Page Number: | 21 |
Note: | Published under Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 428728448 |
Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |