Alli Kausay: politics rituals for community’s reinvention

Abstract

The debate about Andean community on relation with its possibilities of permanence, postcolonial dissolution or assimilation to State politics in Ecuador leave opening important fringes respect to the diversity integration in wester civilization’s institutions, nowadays hegemonic to global level. This paper pretends offering contrasts and potential meetings points among Andean cultural concepts and the western civilization’s control dispositives, from a genealogical approach.  It is especially important the “community” word’s understanding, paying attention to the etymological important differences among this Latin word and the ayllu llakta belonged to the kichwa culture. The ayllu llakta, kichwa word that is translated as “community”, and the Ñukanchik, that it is translated as “us”, etymologically contribute to a range of notions whose sense is far from the translating of Latin root, this involves political contrapositions non-negligible when to understand to the collective and its social order. On this viewpoint it checks the statal institutionally though a politics that try including generally kichwa and indigenous worldview’s elements from western organization basis.