THE FEMINIST LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO FORENSIC WORK WITH DISABLED FAMILIES

alliances and collaborations with "Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte"

Abstract

In this article the author reflects on her experience as a member o member of the Forensic and Social Anthropology Research Group (Grupo de Investigación en Antropología Social y Forense - GIASF), that work with families of disappeared persons. She analyses the work of Las Buscadoras de El Fuerte, an organization, which like many others in Mexico, is made up primarily of the mothers and wives of the disappeared, whom, in the face of the incompetence of the Mexican State, have given themselves to the task of searching in clandestine graves for the remains of their relatives. Through testimonies and ethnographic data, the author analyses the possibilities and limitations of a feminist legal anthropology for the co-production of knowledge, which could be useful in a context of multiple violence and impunity.