Assemblies represent an essential element in the indigenous justice of the communities in Oaxaca. In these types of gatherings, the community becomes a collective judicial body in order to address a violation of its normative system. What is their nature? How do they function? What notable elements do they incorporate in their development? This study aims to provide an approach to these questions through the tools of discourse analysis and studies on orality. To achieve its goal, it is divided into four sections: the first analyzes the typology, nature and status of indigenous justice assemblies; while the following sections focus on examining their procedural, discursive and oral dynamics.

Assemblies represent an essential element in the indigenous justice of the communities in Oaxaca. In these types of gatherings, the community becomes a collective judicial body in order to address a violation of its normative system. What is their nature? How do they function? What notable elements do they incorporate in their development? This study aims to provide an approach to these questions through the tools of discourse analysis and studies on orality. To achieve its goal, it is divided into four sections: the first analyzes the typology, nature and status of indigenous justice assemblies; while the following sections focus on examining their procedural, discursive and oral dynamics.

The constitutional formalization of the autonomy of indigenous peoples and communities in Mexico has generated new signification processes that require a broader understanding than the legal one. Therefore, there is a need to incorporate the anthropological, sociological and cultural dimension to the theory of law to understand contemporary plurilegality. This essay argues the importance of adopting the concept of “transculturation” for field of legal discipline. It is a category of analysis that originated in Latin American anthropology and later underwent a fundamental development by literary criticism and Latin American cultural studies. In this sense, the concept of “legal transculturation” is proposed in two dimensions: indigenous (subaltern) and state (hegemonic), as well as the conceptual relationship between that concept and analytical categories such as “inte...

Assemblies represent an essential element in the indigenous justice of the communities in Oaxaca. In these types of gatherings, the community becomes a collective judicial body in order to address a violation of its normative system. What is their nature? How do they function? What notable elements do they incorporate in their development? This study aims to provide an approach to these questions through the tools of discourse analysis and studies on orality. To achieve its goal, it is divided into four sections: the first analyzes the typology, nature and status of indigenous justice assemblies; while the following sections focus on examining their procedural, discursive and oral dynamics.