Sandro Sessarego | University of Texas at Austin | Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | Foro Latinoamericano de Antropología del Derecho
This paper provides a legal perspective on the
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Spanish creoles in the Americas (Lipski 2005; McWhorter 2000). In so doing, it presents
the Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis (LHCG) (Sessarego 2015, 2017a) and tests it on Colombian Chocó, a
remote region, far away from urban centers and legal courts, where
law could hardly be enforced during the colonial period.
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