Legal anthropology and the common law as construct of social realities

Abstract

The Juridical Anthropology and the practices and customary customs, central topic of the text, it is treated from areas like the cultures of the water and the traditional systems of irrigation; the sustainable management of the common property; the modalities of familiar institution and the ways of administering his goods specially in the moment to test, stopping in customary institutions as Baylío’s Jurisdiction and the couple branch - acetuao. Under the juridical custom there sublies the model of the systems of reciprocity. From the empirical base of the ethnographic fieldwork realized in Estremadura there appear other significant variables related
to the studies concerning the juridical custom, such as the systems of values, the religion and the systems ideáticos, the social structures, the studies of kind and the environmental ones.