Abstract

CUNILL, CAROLINE. Archives in Mayan Towns of Yucatán and the Construction of Legal Memory (I6^th Century). Front. hist. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.1, pp.12-37. ISSN 2027-4688.

This article analyses the creation and functioning of the indigenous archives in the sixteenth-century Yucatan. On the one hand, we will take into account the Spanish Crown's policy aimed create archives in the Republic of Indians. We will show that this policy went from the inclusion to the exclusion of the indigenous records. On the other hand, we highlight the Mayas' effort to know the Spanish notarial genders, to legitimate their own records before the colonial authorities, and, in some cases, to use them in a parallel and unofficial circuit. In other words, we will try to highlight the process of creation of a hybrid system of generation, utilization, and conservation of notarial documents in indigenous archives.

Keywords : Archives; hybridization; Mayas; notarial records; Yucatan.

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