Reflections on the pre-political and indigenous people

Abstract

The objective of this essay is to reflect on the «pre-political» and indigenous
peoples to understand how the colonial matrix linked the «political» with
civilized societies, and the «pre-political» with primitive societies and their
indians bodies. From the approach of two specific cases, the Tupí Guaraní
indigenous peoples studied by the anthropologist Pierre Clastres and the
andean indian body subsumed to the Bolivian colonial State, we propose a
new entry of critical analysis on the unfavorable situation to which
indigenous peoples in Latin America were historically subjected. The
background of the proposal, by highlighting the decolonial resistance
capacity of these peoples, seeks to propose new meanings of what is
commonly understood as «pre-political».