Bureaucratic Ambitions and Indigenous Defendants in Nineteenth-Century Huajuapan
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Abstract
Abstract As was true in many parts of Mexico, judicial prosecutions for reproductive crimes increased in the last third of the nineteenth century in the small communities of Huajuapan, Oaxaca. This article examines why community members and local officials denounced and investigated Indigenous women in these Mixtec communities for the crime of infanticide in this period. It suggests that local bureaucrats empowered by the positions, practices, and procedures of republican government engaged in the policing of the sexual and reproductive practices of women in their communities to publicize their commitment to the functioning of the modern liberal state before the audience of judicial functionaries who occupied positions above them in state government and the judiciary. Ironically, however, this effort often backfired. The Huajuapan cases show that local bureaucrats exhibited greater zeal in their intent to prosecute female community members than did judicial officers who occupied more powerful offices than they and who were further removed geographically from the small rural communities in which the cases originated.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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