"Buscando para ello testigos falsos" reflexiones en torno a la producción y la valoración de las pruebas en los tribunales del Imperio hispánico

• Main Author: Cunill, Caroline (auth)
• Other Authors: Cuevas Arenas, Héctor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Colombia Universidad Santiago de Cali 2020
• Subjects: Social & cultural history; Testigos; Oralidad; Justicia; Pueblos originarios; Yucatán colonial
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Oral testimonies and, specially, those of Native people were often key pieces in the trials brought into Spanish America's Courts of justice. In many cases, they are also the only sources available to capture indigenous voices in the Colonial archive. Nevertheless, although its centrality for o...