Lo que los conflictos nos enseñan sobre el derecho a la tierra

Tamar Herzog

doi:10.24901/rehs.v46i181.1074

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Tamar Herzog Harvard University

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https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v46i181.1074

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Derecho a la tierra, comunidades indígenas, uso, posesión, familia

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Este texto describe la precariedad de los derechos sobre la tierra en la América Latina colonial. Prestando atención a los derechos de uso y posesión, más que a los derechos de propiedad, examina los debates que tuvieron lugar en los tribunales coloniales sobre a quién pertenecía la tierra, cómo la asignaban y conservaban las comunidades, las familias y los individuos, y qué podían hacer éstos para proteger sus derechos. Reexamina lo que eran las composiciones de tierra, cómo se entendían los derechos de los caciques a las tierras comunales, y demuestra la estrecha relación entre los derechos a la tierra y la pertenencia a una comunidad. El estudio de caso es la audiencia de Quito y los conflictos en los que estaban involucradas comunidades indígenas, pero la meta es describir lo que estas disputas pueden decirnos sobre cómo los contemporáneos imaginaban, entendían y practicaban los derechos sobre la tierra.

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Tamar Herzog, Harvard University

Tamar Herzog's work centers on the relationship between Spain, Portugal, Portuguese and Spanish America and the ways by which Iberian societies changed as a result of their involvement in a colonial project.

Her first set (of four) books examined the working of colonial institutions in everyday situations. It included an analysis of the relationship between legal norms and social and political practices, and was mainly concerned with the way institutions and normative orders responded to changing circumstances, and to material and symbolic constraints. Her fifth book dealt with the way individuals negotiated being members of both local and kingdom communities, and with how immigrants became citizens, and citizens were transformed in outsiders. Her sixth book examined the formation of the border between Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas. Rather than a political, military or diplomatic history, it analyzed how boundaries were formed on the ground by neighbors and how the right to land and the use of territory were discussed, negotiated, obtained or denied. Her latest book is an extended essay on the history of European law, spanning from Roman times to present- day debates on the European Union and the globalization of law. It challenges a few of the most common assumptions regarding legal history, including, for example, the division of European law into Continental and English law, or the separation between European and colonial law.

A legal scholar and historian by training, her work engages with early modern European history, colonial Latin American history, imperial history, Atlantic history, and Legal history.

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