Indian (denomination)

Abstract

The article will show how the different denominations: Indian, Indian or indigenous people, peasant, indigenous or native community, ethnicity, nation and nationality, granted to the Aymaras, Quechuas (Bolivia) and Kichwas (Ecuador) are a social historical deconstruction of almost five centuries towards its millenarian and historical identity, which causes three effects: a) domination (guardianship), b) territorial destructuration, therefore, political-administrative, economic and social disarticulation, and c) limitation in its struggle for emancipation.

Thus, the different denominations used by the Plurinational States of Bolivia and Ecuador, are a hegemonic-historical deconstructive language by means of signifiers and significations that will impregnate a colonial and postcolonial "sign" to the jaques, runas, ayllus, markas, suyus, señoríos Aymaras, Quechuas, and Kichwas become a paradigm of denomination and domination over the long term.