Abstract

SAAVEDRA HERNANDEZ, Laura Edith. Challenges and Experiences in the Construction of an Anthropological Expert Witness Report with Gender Perspective: Bertha’s Struggle for Land in Chiapas. Desacatos [online]. 2018, n.57, pp.56-71. ISSN 2448-5144.

This article discusses the experience of the construction of an anthropological expert witness report with a gender perspective and the challenges of working with this perspective in the customs of the indigenous communities in Mexico. The defense of the case is carried through the Center of Rights the Women of Chiapas, who applied the methodology of participatory legal defense, which seeks to empower indigenous women in the defense of their rights. The anthropological expert witness report aim to describe the permanence and continuity of the indigenous customs and inequalities of power and gender when indigenous women seek justice.

Keywords : anthropological expertise; perspective of dispossession of lands; gender; indigenous women; women’s rights.