CORREA MUNOZ, Mario Enrique    SALDARRIAGA GRISALES, Dora Cecilia. The Latin American indian epistemicide: some thoughts from decolonial critical thinking. []. , 5, 2, pp.154-164. ISSN 2145-7719.

The emergence of the myth of modernity created parallel coloniality, the latter has been intentionally ignored in the process of illustration and little has been appointed the effects generated in so-called underdeveloped countries, particularly in Latin America; through it, the thought that has been Eurocentric epistemic questions explaining the different branches of knowledge was implemented. The law has not escaped this thinking and is dedicated to recognizing rights regularly conducts external needs, without questioning the consequences of the security of these in native and traditional populations. This article will realize epistemicide indigenous product of Eurocentric thought; and the need to value and incorporate the contribution of indigenous epistemic subject in legal studies in order to understand the context and understanding from a local perspective decolonizada.

: Decoloniality; indigenous actor; Latin American thought; epistemicide; eurocentrism.

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