%0 Journal Article %T ANIMALIZAR PARA DISTINGUIR: NARRACIONES Y EXPERIENCIAS DEL CONFLICTO POL¨ªTICO ARMADO ENTRE LA GENTE DE CENTRO %A TOB¨®N %A MARCO ALEJANDRO %J Revista Colombiana de Antropolog¨ªa %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article aims to answer two questions. the first one: how do the uitoto, muinane, andoke and nonuya, self-named people of the center, build cultural differences between themselves and the farc and the army, which are present in their territory? the second one: what cultural resources do they use to take a position as differentiated unarmed subjects? distinctions between the protagonists of the war and the populations on the middle caquet¨¢ river are built on the opposing notions of animal and human, the guerrilla and the army being classified as "wild animals" and the people of the center self-conceived as "true humanity". the author insists on naming this cultural classification that animalizes to differentiate the "politics of distinction" %K people of the center %K armed political conflict %K cultural resources %K politics of distinction %K "wild animals". %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0486-65252010000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en