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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831597103321

Autore

Heck Moritz (Universität zu Köln, Deutschland)

Titolo

Plurinational Afrobolivianity : Afro-Indigenous Articulations and Interethnic Relations in the Yungas of Bolivia / Moritz Heck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

9783839450567

383945056X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Classificazione

LB 48655

Disciplina

467.984

Soggetti

Bolivia; Afrodescendants; Ethnicity; Indigeneity; Plurinationality; African Diaspora; America; Cultural History; Racism; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Social Movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 List of Figures    11 List of Acronyms    13 Glossary of Spanish and Aymara Terms    15 Acknowledgements    17 Introduction    19 Chapter 1: Encountering Afrobolivianity    43 Chapter 2: The Afrobolivian Presence in Bolivia, Then and Now    61 Chapter 3: "We are los Afros de Cala Cala"    81 Chapter 4: Cala Cala beyond "lo Afro"    107 Chapter 5: The Changing Meanings of Ethnoracial Identifications in Cala Cala    131 Chapter 6: What It Means to Be Afro    153 Chapter 7: "We are Culture, not Color"    183 Chapter 8: "El Movimiento Afroboliviano"    215 Chapter 9: Rights, Recognition, and New Forms of Organization    245 Chapter 10: Plurinational Afrobolivianity on the Ground and Built Identity Politics    273 Conclusion: "Eso de lo Afro, es un caminar"    295 Bibliography    301 Newspaper articles    321 Laws and documents    323

Sommario/riassunto

In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and political transformations shaping the country as a whole. Moritz Heck analyzes Afrobolivian social and cultural practices at the intersections of local communities, politics, and the law, shedding light on novel



articulations of Afrobolivianity and evolving processes of collective identification. This study also contributes to broader anthropological debates on blackness and indigeneity in Latin America by pointing out their conceptual entanglements and continuous interactions in political and social practice.