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<journal-id>0188-7017</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Alteridades]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Alteridades]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0188-7017</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0188-70172006000100039</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Burocracia, justicia y pluralismo jurídico. Una exploración de los espacios del poder en Oaxaca]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, justice and legal pluralism: an exploration concerning spaces of power in Oaxaca]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Leal]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alejandra]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Columbia  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Nueva York NY]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>16</volume>
<numero>31</numero>
<fpage>39</fpage>
<lpage>48</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0188-70172006000100039&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0188-70172006000100039&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0188-70172006000100039&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Este artículo presenta una aproximación etnográfica a la Procuraduría para la Defensa del Indígena de Oaxaca, institución que representa un doble aspecto del Estado: por un lado, promueve el pluralismo jurídico y la defensa de los derechos de los indígenas; por el otro, perpetúa la indefensión de los indígenas oaxaqueños debido a un cúmulo de prácticas corruptas, abusos, arbitrariedades, desorganización e ineficiencia. Con base en el trabajo etnográfico en esta procuraduría, se aborda dicha contradicción con el argumento de que la ambigüedad y el desorden son constitutivos del Estado y de la manera en que éste establece su dominación. Mediante la ilegibilidad e imprecisión de su propio discurso y de sus propias prácticas el Estado introduce la promesa o la anticipación de justicia y, al mismo tiempo, imposibilita su cumplimiento.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This article presents an ethnographic approach to the Indigenous Defense Procuracy in Oaxaca, an institution that embodies a dual aspect of the State. On the one hand, it is the expression of a State that promotes legal pluralism and the defense of indigenous rights. On the other hand, it is the materialization of a State that perpetuates the defenselessness of Oaxacan Indians through a cluster of corrupt practices, arbitrary abuses, disorganization and inefficiency. Based on ethnographic work in this institution, this work approaches this apparent contradiction, arguing that ambiguity and disorder are constitutive of the State and of the ways it establishes its domination. Through the ambiguity and illegibility of its own discourses and practices the State introduces the promise or anticipation of justice, while at the same time it shatters its fulfillment.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[State]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[indigenous rights]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[legal pluralism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Indigenous Defense Procuracy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Oaxaca]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Estado]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[derechos indígenas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[pluralismo jurídico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Procuraduría para la Defensa del Indígena]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Oaxaca]]></kwd>
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