TEJIENDO LA VIDA EN LA CIUDAD DE CALI: Estrategias de adaptación e inclusión de seis cabildos indígenas urbanos

Abstract

The aim of this work is to state the relationship between processes that have been called “of ethnicity building” (Koonings and Silva, 1999) or “ethnic reinvention” (Castillo and Cairou, 2002:66) and the strategies of survival that employ six ethnic groups in the city of Cali. An exam is made of the ways in which the six urban indigenous Cabildos have undertaken political processes for asserting their ethnic differences and the rights on which they are based as indigenous peoples, and the uses they have made of Duch differences for obtaining advantages in the economic activities that they develop, as well as of the migrant paths and of the relationships between the urban and the rural Cabildos, as a continuum of the Resguardo and the city, and of the adequate ways of ethnic reinvention in the symbolic dimension of the urban environment, and the political strategy of multi-ethnic alliance.