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- Title
How to Punish Indians: Law and Cultural Change in Early Colonial Mexico.
- Authors
Pardo, Osvaldo F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the practice of cutting off the hair of offenders as a punishment in India. In 1568, bachiller Alonzo Fernández de Sigura was appointed to the office of provisior de indios by Archbishop Father Alonso de Montɐfar. He will be in charged on the administration of all ecclesiastical legal matter among Indians in the diocese. In 1570, he suggested another form of punishment because the present punishment failed to produce a desirable effect. Punishment were performed by an Indians who were appointed by the viceroy through the assistance of the missionaries.
- Subjects
HEAD shaving; INDIGENOUS peoples of Mexico; PUNISHMENT; CRIMINALS; VICEROYS; BISHOPS; CHURCH discipline
- Publication
Comparative Studies in Society & History, 2006, Vol 48, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0010-4175
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0010417506000041