Abstract

RAPPAPORT, JOANNE. EL IMAGINARIO DE UNA NACIÓN PLURALISTA: LOS INTELECTUALES PÚBLICOS Y LA JURISDICCIÓN ESPECIAL INDÍGENA EN COLOMBIA. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2003, vol.39, pp.105-138. ISSN 0486-6525.

THE 1991 CONSTITUTION GIVES INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES THE RIGHT TO A HAVE A legal system based upon their own "uses and customs". I explore the role of indigenous intellectuals in the reconstruction of customary law, inquiring how indigenous activists have interpreted legal pluralism by analyzing the meanings of neologisms created during the translation of the constitution into the Nasa language. I then turn to a court case in which the constitutionally-mandated rights of individuals as Colombian citizens come into conflict with the newly-recognized rights of indigenous communities as collective legal actors, in an effort to understand the multiple levels on which legal pluralism must be negotiated.

Keywords : customary law; ethnic movements; subaltern intellectuals; cultural politics; nasa.

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