Abstract

PEPINOSA BRAVO, Héctor Eduardo. A look at the concept of justice from "Los Pastos" indigenous' viewpoint. Rev. Fac. Derecho Cienc. Polit. - Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2012, vol.42, n.117, pp.481-514. ISSN 0120-3886.

This article seeks to expose a theoretical framework addressing the indigenous justice from the point of view of legal pluralism. This framework recognizes the indigenous justice as a model for normative integration, which has been used in these kinds of communities for thousands of years. The indigenous practices seen from their own perspective and cosmogony, show a passionate, versatile, and at many times creative and effective structure for protecting their rights, those of their community, and those of their great nation. Some concepts will alter some interesting situations that will be used as logical and theoretical framework in order to understand the uses and habits of the "Pastas" indigenous community, located in the south of Colombia, their structure and organization system, their oral juridical system but, above all, the indigenous existence and resistance, identity and intercultural forms, which have allowed the parallel, simultaneous or alternative coexistence of two ways of coexistent infra state rights.

Keywords : Justice; Legal Pluralism; Indigenous; Community; Uses and Habits; Cosmogony.

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