Consultation with indigenous peoples and the balance of symbolic power between the perspectives involved

This article demonstrates how the procedure of consultation with indigenous peoples becomes a mechanism of democratic participation when the imbalance of symbolic power is reduced, and a decolonizing bias is adopted. The methods used were deductive and historical-dialectical materialist and the research was bibliographic. The result was achieved using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the Amerindian perspectivism of Viveiros de Castro.