Labores periciales en contextos de judicialización con pueblos indígenas. Texturas de la experiencia de producción de un peritaje antropológico para el pueblo arhuaco en Colombia

Abstract

: In judicial processes involving indigenous peoples, it has become increasingly recurrent to integrate special mechanisms to allow for dialogue, and the interpretation and translation of the cultural differences of the indigenous worlds before state justice operators. Expert appraisal is one of these devices that summon the anthropological discipline to the courts. The purpose of this article is to show how expert opinion is a device of professional practice for the intervention of anthropology in processes of demand for justice intended to guarantee the understanding of cultural and social diversity. The arguments and elements detailed in the article are based on a research experience involving the Arhuaco indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia between 2018 and 2020, the documentary/bibliographic analysis, and the study of the judicial file related to the facts concerning the retention, torture, and death of three Arhuaco indigenous authorities that occurred in 1990. The article concludes that anthropological expertise is a device of disciplinary practice that can support the demands of