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... This chapter considers the bureaucratic and legal culture of the courtroom, including what constituted evidence. It argues that the power vested in the presentation of documents, including brands on faces and bodies, and the testimonies of expert witnesses resulted in the creation of legal...

... Slave owners appealing the court’s decisions to free their slaves shared their understandings and experiences of slaving practices. In the locus of the courtroom, they articulated clear ideas about the meaning of “natural” slavery and the practices of just war, ransom (rescate), and cannibalism...

... of gender that undermined legal logic. These protests rarely resulted in courtroom victories, but they reached large audiences through the city press. As such they provided a counternarrative to cross-dressing law and carved out critical space to resist its normalizing effects. nineteenth-century San...

... and generation within local communities. For their part, shack dwellers persisted in struggling for urban citizenship: they honed courtroom tactics, resisted evictions and deportations, and engaged in routine activities that ranged from the building of shanties and makeshift schools and churches to the formation...

... in Castilian courtrooms. indio commodification family intimacy ...

... the perspective of the indigenous peoples who were deeply involved in and victims of these processes. Key to understanding this development is how notions of sovereignty – the imagined meanings of land, boundaries, and space—helped determine the imperial status of indios in the courtroom. sovereignty...