Opening path towards legal interstices: gender violence and mayan women
Authors
Andrea Álvarez Díaz
Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Departamento de Antropología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile. Ignacio Carrera Pinto 1045, Ñuñoa
Some dogmatic conceptions about justice deny the possibility that diverse legal systems can coexist in the same territory, ensuring that the State Law is the only valid one and also that it is present everywhere. This paper analyzes and discusses the effect on Mayan Mam women from Colotenango, Guatemala, facing the resolution of their conflicts in the legal instances available at the local level, in the context of articulation of positive legal and indigenous systems. In particular, we are interested in presenting an account of the way women have been leading with the barriers associated with racism and sexism of the positive legal system and the patriarchal expressions presents in indigenous communitarian instances, in order to confront, denounce and resolve everyday situations related to gender violence.
Álvarez Díaz, A. (2016). Opening path towards legal interstices: gender violence and mayan women. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (31). Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/40606
