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Culture as Judicial Evidence : Expert Testimony in Latin America /

"As societies increasingly grapple with managing cultural diversity, one mechanism that is gaining ground is the use of cultural experts -most frequently anthropologists -to provide testimony about a defendant's cultural background. Much like forensic or ballistic analysis, this testimony...

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Otros Autores: Rodriguez, Leila (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati Press [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the use of cultural expert witness testimony in Latin America / Leila Rodriguez
  • Judicial representations of culture / Guevara Berger
  • The value of judicial evidence / Sánchez Botero
  • Reflections on anthropological expert testimony in the context of the Mapuche indigenous movement's emergence : culture, racism, and law in the neoliberal era / Castro Neira and Castro Neira
  • Black communities in the face of the founding norm in Mexico / Villanueva Gutierrez
  • Cultural and normative conflicts over homosexual relationships and the educator profession : an enlightening judgement / Sánchez Botero
  • Religious minorities, ideology, and gender-based violence / Villanueva Gutierrez
  • Anthropological expert testimony and Guatemalan asylum-seekers in the United States / Leila Rodriguez
  • Interpreting cultural expert testimony in an indigenous community in Costa Rica / Yumi Nukada
  • Anthropological expert testimony perceived by the subjects of the testimony : the case of Peru / Rivas Plata Caballero
  • Dilemmas and controversies surrounding socio-cultural anthropological expert testimony in Chile and Latin America / Marcelo Berho Castillo
  • Contradictions and dilemmas of anthropological expert testimony / Morales Urra
  • Challenges in the provision of cultural expert testimony / Perez Stefanov, Romero Gorski and Leila Rodriguez.