Abstract

CRUZ RUEDA, Elisa. La lógica de la justicia en una comunidad indígena mixe. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2011, vol.6, n.11, pp.116-148. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2011.11.136.

Relevant cases addressed by the authorities of the study community are presented, some of them witnessed first-hand and others reconstructed through narrations and a few documents. A parallel reflection is developed on the criteria for their resolution, the difference between grave and minor matters, and oral and written norms and their nature and differences, demonstrating the specificity of the law that is constructed in the indigenous community, which in the end finds itself immersed in a broader system, that of the Mexican State. A minimal part of the field research and documentation (historic, social, theoretical, and conceptual) is presented, leaving aside debates developed in the core of juridical anthropology and sociology of law on juridical pluralism, inter-legality, indigenous normative systems, and the relation of indigenous peoples and the State (Cfr. Santos 1991, 1995 and 1998; Sierra 1987, 2004a and b, 2006 and Valdivia 2001 and 2006, and several other authors).

Keywords : Law; indigenous law; oral and written juridical norms.

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