La Ley y Los Pueblos Indigenas En Colombia

• Autores: Guillermo Padilla
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 1, Nº. 2, 1996, págs. 78-97
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay highlights some of the effects of Colombia's constitutional incorporation of the rights of indigenous peoples. The author holds that while the State creates new spaces for indigenous participation, it will also legitimate and expand the scope of its influence over these peoples. Indigenous efforts to preserve their own institutions and their cohesion may be put at risk along with the ethnic and cultural diversity that the State should protect and preserve. These risks are compounded by individualizing indigenous representation entailed through the process of extending modernization and state ideologies through these and other means