(Doctorado en Antropología, CIESAS, 2013-2017)
This course covers the main theoretical and methodological debates in legal anthropology. It discusses, among other topics, the founding debates of law and custom; the processual turn and perspectives on law, history and power; legal pluralism and concepts of the field and interlegality; indigenous justices and legal reforms, and the impact of contemporary globalization on the law. There is a particular emphasis on ethnographies of law and justice, drawing on examples from Latin America.