Abstract
This article models a methodology for recovering the substance and nature of the Aztec legal tradition by interrogating reports of precontact indigenous behavior in the works of early colonial ethnographers, as well as in pictorial manuscripts and their accompanying oral performances. It calls for a new, richly recontextualized approach to the study of a medieval civilization whose sophisticated legal and jurisprudential practices have been fundamentally obscured by a long process of decontextualization and the anachronistic applications of modern Western paradigms.
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Offner, Jerome A.
(2016)
"The Future of Aztec Law,"
The Medieval Globe: Vol. 2:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/tmg/vol2/iss2/3
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