María Teresa Sierra (ed.), Haciendo justicia. Interlegalidad, derecho y género en regiones indígenas, México, CIESAS/Porrúa, 2004.

Carrying out Justice. Interlegality, law and gender in indigenous regions.
To make the reading of this text, it is important to consider that the law cannot be understood more as a unique set of rules. The law is also argumentation and procedures. The law focused on argumentation is living, dynamic, right to understand that the legal consists of cultural, social and contextual, elements of where the legal operator must watering to find just solutions cases.

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Lourdes Baez Cubero, El juego de las alternancias: la vida y la muerte. Rituales del ciclo de vida entre los nahuas de la Sierra de puebla, México, Conaculta/ Programa de Desarrollo Cultural de la Huasteca, 2005.

The alternating game: the life and death. Life-cycle rituals among the Nahua of the Sierra de Puebla
The book is organized into four chapters, introduction and conclusion. This is a simple text with good structure and simple writing, so that the reader is lead by the hand to know the main ideas, proposals, hypotheses and conclusions without any tricks or major complications.

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Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett, Comcáac quih Yaza quih Hant Ihíip hac. Seri – Spanish – English Dictionary, Hermosillo, Universidad de Sonora/Plaza y Valdés, 2005

While there are several vocabularies of indigenous languages in Mexico, including one of Seri called “comcáac” by its speakers, the production of dictionaries is very limited. Therefore, the work compiled by Mary Beck Moser and Stephen Marlett is a real breakthrough for the least explored areas of linguistics devoted to the native languages of Mexico and on the indigenous languages spoken throughout the world. On this article we will focus on the Seri – Spanish part of the dictionary mentioned above.

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María Elena Villegas Molina, The relative clauses in the otomi – Spanish language of Santiago Mexquititlán, Mexico, INAH (Cinética, 473), 2005.

This book presents an original research based on the handling and analysis of new data. It brings to the field of contact between languages, focusing on the analysis of essays written in Spanish by high school students, native speakers of the Otomi tongue. These students are part of the “video high school” program, of the community of Santiago Mexquititlán, municipality of Amealco, Queretaro; wrote narratives of their community, completing the data for this analysis.

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Mechthild Rutsch/Mette Marie Wacher (coords.), Master Builders, amanuenses and evangelists. Traditions, characters, communities and narratives of science in Mexico, México, UIA/INAH (Cientific, 467), 2004.

On the 10th anniversary of the Seminary of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Mexican anthropology, appeared a commemorative volume that involves various members of the seminar, whose regular meetings were always enriched by a sense of the inevitable seasoned critic of companionship and exercise friendship.

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