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Record Nr.

UNISA996582054903316

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

3-8394-5056-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Classificazione

LB 48655

Disciplina

467.984

Soggetti

Afrodescendants

Ethnicity

Indigeneity

African diaspora

Racism

Social movements

Bolivia

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.