El pueblo Kitu Kara: organización comunitaria, negociación con el gobierno local y ontologías relacionales

Abstract

his article shows the political articulation of the indigenous communes and communities constituted as Kitu Kara People in the city of Quito. It examines their identity as a non-migrant collective and explains the organizational mechanisms that have al- lowed the rediscovery of their ancestral systems of government and the appropriation of constitutional normative elements, such as community democracy. The ethnographic approach explains the ontological relationships between these ancestral systems and the municipality, demonstrating the normative contradictions between the Ecuadorian constitution of 2008 and the survival of previous legal systems