Abstract

DE ALARCON, Silvya. La justicia comunitaria como sustento de la ética aymara. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2009, vol.2, n.3, pp.253-278. ISSN 1997-4043.

ABSTRACT The adoption of the new Political Constitution of Bolivia Multicountry in January this year, has shifed the conception of justice, since justice from indigenous communities has been incorporated, leading to a pluralistic system in law. Despite this significant inclusion of what has been called community justice there is a deep misunderstanding of it's real meaning. In the context of ethics, we will discuss some elements of what justice can be understood by community justice in the Aymara community structure in order to try to outline an approach that allows to understand and differentiate simultaneously social practices that do not match the social and productive matrix. In this regard, we support the thesis that the core content of justice in the Aymara community is reciprocity. However, the livelihood of reciprocity does not lye in the cosmovision, but in the social relations of production that define the structure of the community. This approach allows us to understand both the practical administration of justice as the proper punishment system itself, in Aymara communities. Considerarin these issues opens up a range of questions about the social construction developed in Bolivia and the henceforth inevitable challenges and plans for transforming education.

Keywords : Ethicas; Community justice; Community and Reciprocity.

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