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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0185-3929</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Relaciones. Estudios de historia y sociedad]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Relac. Estud. hist. soc.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-3929</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[El Colegio de Michoacán]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id>S0185-39292025000100027</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24901/rehs.v46i181.1074</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[What Land Disputes Tell Us About Land Rights]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Lo que los conflictos nos enseñan sobre el derecho a la tierra]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Herzog]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Tamar]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Harvard University  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>46</volume>
<numero>181</numero>
<fpage>27</fpage>
<lpage>50</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-39292025000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-39292025000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-39292025000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This text describes the precariousness of land rights in colonial Latin America. Drawing attention to usage rights and possession, rather than property rights, it surveys debates in the colonial courts regarding who the land belongs to, how it is assigned and conserved by communities, families, and individuals, and what can these do to protect their entitlements. It re-examines what composiciones de tierra were, the rights of caciques to communal land, and demonstrates the tight connection between land rights and membership. The case study is the audiencia of Quito, and land conflict involving indigenous peoples, but the aim is to describe what land disputes can tell us about how contemporaries imagined, understood, and practiced, land rights.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen 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.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Land rights]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[indigenous communities]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[use]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[possession]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[family]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Derecho a la tierra]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[comunidades indígenas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[uso]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[posesión]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[familia]]></kwd>
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