El artículo analiza, desde un enfoque antropológico, algunos desafíos del pluralismo político y
jurídico en el caso de las Rondas Campesinas de Cajamarca (Perú). Organizaciones sociales nacidas
con la finalidad de protegerse de robos de ganado, las Rondas Campesinas de la zona
norte del Perú, fueron convirtiéndose en un espacio de administración de justicia y de gestión
pública comunitaria.
The article analyses, from an anthropological approach, some challenges of political and legal
pluralism in the case of ‘rondas campesinas’ at Cajamarca (Peru). Peasants patrols of the North
Peru, social organizations created by peasants in order to protect themselves from robberies of
cattle, became a space of administration of justice and communitarian politics. Legally, although
the Peruvian law recognized Ronda’s administration of justice, we’ll show that there are
important contradictions that local actors must solve pragmatically. At a political level, our
analysis will emphasize that ‘rondas’ found themselves in a scheme of relationships with the
state that separates local levels of politics from regional and national levels.