Institutional bricolage in Peruvian Amazonia: a native community’s experience

• Autor: Vila, Gisselle
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/14841
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/14841
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: institutional bricolage; Amazonia; indigenous people; integrated water management (IWM); bricolaje institucional; Amazonía; pueblos indígenas; gestión integrada de recursos hídricos (GIRH)

This article explores the institutional bricolage process developed in a native community, which derives in the creation of a water user’s association. Based on a historical review, the article identifies the borrowing dynamics from previous arrangements, such as family relationships and meetings, in order to make sense of the new institutional frameworks promoted by development projects, such as cooperative work and the payment of a water tariff. The argument proposes that this is a process of institutional alteration, because it does not led to the creation of a qualitatively different organism, but rather it reproduces previously stablished logics and agreements.