IN SEARCH OF TINTERILLOS.
The tradition of intermediaries negotiating conflicts between Indigenous and Western worlds in Latin America can be traced back to the colonial period. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, semiprofessional or petty lawyers known as tinterillos assumed a seemingly ubiquitous presence in...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 95 - 115 |
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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