Cultura política y usos sociales de la justicia de los pueblos mayas del noroeste de Yucatán, 1830-1843

The article analyzes the judicial political culture of the Mayan peoples of northwest Yucatán. It investigates the role of these towns in the face of the political-normative restructuring issued by the regional and central authorities in the period 1830-1843. The article maintains that the Mayans of northwest Yucatán built their citizenship during and after the validity of the Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy of 1812. They took advantage of the disorganized administration of justice to forge daily strategies of power. To do this, they exercised the social use of justice and appropriated the regulations for their own benefit. Although the current legal framework transformed them by establishing them as citizens, they also formed a citizenship that acted in the public sphere in defense of their autonomy. The article investigates the political-legal culture of offenders and judicial operators in the courts. To do this, it reviews the historiography in relation to the study of infrapolitics, and presents cases according to the way in which the judicial framework operated at the time of the trial, identifying the actors and their functions, as well as the arguments of judicial operators and subordinates in the description of the sentences.