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HUEBER, Solveig. Dinámicas post-constitucionales: cambios en la administración de justicia indígena en Ecuador después de la reforma constitucional de 1998. Nueva antropol [online]. 2009, vol.22, n.71, pp.73-91. ISSN 0185-0636.

Based on several communities of the Ecuadorian Sierra, this paper analyses the changes in Ecuador's indigenous justice after the 1998 constitutional reform. We consider the 1998 Constitution as a breaking point in the indigenous practice of justice in Ecuador: while their recognition by the constitution provides a new legal basis for the ancestral forms of practicing law, it also has a dynamic effect on them. This is what we call "post-constitutional dynamics" in indigenous communities.

Palavras-chave : indigenous justice; consolidation; post-constitutional dynamics; Ecuadorian Sierra's communities.