Spatial awareness and legal knowledge. Two phases in the regulation of indigenous encomiendas in Tucumán (southern Andean region, 16th and 17th centuries)
Abstract
Assuming that space is a determining factor for the production or development of law, we propose that the regulations on Indian encomiendas in colonial America were always local and not general. They did not seek to replicate the orders contained in the royal cédulas, but rather to translate their general principles into the local order. The regulations on encomienda were the result of negotiation between the interests of the king, the interests of the neighborhood, the capacity for resistance or adaptation of the indigenous communities, as well as the knowledge of space. In this essay we will analyze the case of the Government of Tucumán, located in the southern Andes, in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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