The interest for the study of the social practices in the American colonial world has intended to reconsider, for example, the history of institutions, with the accent on the social actors and the adjustment of general norms to local peculiarities. For the legal sphere, see Juan Carlos Garavaglia and Jean-Fr?ric Schaub, Lois, Justice, Coutume. Am?que et Europe latines (16e-19e si?e), Paris, ?itions de L'?ole del Hautes ?udes en Sciences Sociales, 2005. 23 See note 13.
