The 1991 National Constitutión, its influence, organization and application of its own and autonomous traditional justice. The case of the assemblies of the nasa of the Huellas reservation, Caloto, Cauca province, Colombia

Abstract

This article presents an ethnography on the ways the nasa community of Huellas at Southwestern Colombia has built up its political and administrative autonomy through the strength of collective forms of participating called Asambleas. It is a local public space where traditional justice, self-ascribed as own, is applied. The collection of data was done between February 2015 to June 2016, in which the representations of the territory were addressed from the participation of women. Prior to the development of this item, there is a trace of how the political constitutions of Colombia express the legal relationship of the State with these social groups. The data collection techniques used were participatory observation in all community assemblies, in-depth interviews, life stories, and social mapping workshops on the territory.