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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Heck, Moritz,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

In Bolivia's current »plurinational« moment, processes of collective identification, political articulation, and legal reform converge in unprecedented efforts to »re-found« the country and transform its society. In this context, Moritz Heck analyzes practices and collective identifications of Afrobolivians at the intersection of local communities, politics, and the law. This study of Afrobolivianity aims not only at filling an ethnographic lacuna by systematically addressing the experiences of people of African descent in Bolivia, but also contributes to anthropological debates on indigeneity and Blackness in Latin America by pointing out their deep entanglements and continuous interactions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary of Spanish and Aymara Terms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Encountering Afrobolivianity -- Chapter 2: The Afrobolivian Presence in Bolivia, Then and Now -- Chapter 3: “We are los Afros de Cala Cala" -- Chapter 4: Cala Cala beyond “lo Afro” -- Chapter 5: The Changing Meanings of Ethnoracial Identifications in Cala Cala -- Chapter 6: What It Means to Be Afro -- Chapter 7: “We are Culture, not Color” -- Chapter 8: “El Movimiento Afroboliviano” -- Chapter 9: Rights, Recognition, and New Forms of Organization -- Chapter 10: Plurinational Afrobolivianity on the Ground and Built Identity Politics -- Conclusion: “Eso de lo Afro, es un caminar” -- Bibliography -- Newspaper articles -- Laws and documents