Constitutional Ethnography of Peru: Multicultural Society and Tendencies of Constitutional Law.

After the independence of Peru from the Spanish Crown at the beginning of 19th century, the victorious of the contest met in the need to found an imaginary political society which would give a juridical sustenance to the ' Peruvian nation ', it might seem that only the original nations or indigenous peoples might have filled this need. Nevertheless, due to the political depletion that the indigenous groups had suffered after the wars of independence, the Creole/western social pre-eminent group developed a process of national construction based only on its cultural and political precepts. The constitution of republican Peru as a political society is founded on the post colonial reality of the Peruvian history, and on the juridical relegation of the ethnic/national difference that crosses the whole society in favour of the enthronement of the Creole as political 'normal' model of citizen. This relegation has taken form of seventeen constitutional documents that have governed the life of republican Peru. This article exposes, from a socio juridical perspective, the treatment that the Peruvian Constitutional law has given to the multiculturality. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]