Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order

The Case of Early Modern Goa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20075055
AutoresAngela Barreto Xavier (0000-0002-4367-6647, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Páginas32-71
Fecha de publicación2021-11-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaNorms beyond Empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill | Nijhoff (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/9789004472839_003
OpenAlexW4200064375
ISBN9789004472839
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

This chapter discusses the transition from a period when multinormativity operated in Goa under Portuguese rule to one in which the attempts to homogenize it became standard. In the first period, the role of local normativities was relevant to the making of the Portuguese imperial order; in the second, in contrast, there was an increasing tendency to exclude these normativities. Through examining the Foral dos usos e costumes dos Gancares e Lavradores da Ilha de Goa [...] of 1526, better known as Foral de Mexia, this process is discussed from the perspective of its production, life, and use by the Portuguese agents and local people. The Foral assembled norms, uses, and customs operating in the Goan villages in the third decade of the 16th century. However, its uses over the next decades and centuries bear witness structural changes in the Portuguese Crown’s relationship with Goan territories and people. Contrary to what historiography has assumed, the process of systematic Christianization of Goan society from 1530 onwards implied, at least theoretically, the end of multinormativity that inspired the Foral, due to the gradual submission of Goans to Portuguese law in private and public matters

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