%0 Journal Article %T Los c¨®dices jur¨ªdicos: definici¨®n y metodolog¨ªa de estudio %A Ruz Barrio %A Miguel ¨¢ngel %J Desacatos %D 2011 %I Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog¨ªa Social %X this paper presents the need to consider as a characteristic set within the mesoamerican c¨®dices to all those who had to do with justice, beyond the classical division by content proposed by john b. glass (1975a). it also raises what is the methodology that should apply to their study, which seeks to leverage certain elements of this type of documents that are sometimes forgotten. it is based on division into three levels of study: external, internal and contextualization, in addition to a multidisciplinary. %K criticism of sources %K methodology %K mesoamerican c¨®dices %K indigenous lawsuits %K new spain. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-92742011000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en