Ideological Barriers for the Judicial Evaluation of Anthropological Experts’ Reports

Abstract

This paper tries to identify, further than the positive legal norms and simple institutionalism,the ideological barriers which influence the judicial action towards the valuation of anthropologicalexperts’ reports. This puts Law in an interrelation with other disciplines, particularly thoseof Political Science and Anthropology, Then central point of this essay is to point out that these barriersare an invisible obstacle to the understanding of anthropological experts’ reports, and thatthis situation controverts the viability of an intercultural justice and the plurality of legal systemsin Latin America. At the same time, the problems that emerge with the interrelation between disciplinesare questioned, in order to make possible more complex forms of understanding Law