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Author Heck, Moritz, author.

Title Plurinational Afrobolivianity : Afro-Indigenous articulations and interethnic relations in the Yungas of Bolivia / Moritz Heck.

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
African languages
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Culture and social practice
Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Thesis doctoral University of Cologne 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320).
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
Summary 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
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Subject Black people -- Bolivia.
Black people.
Bolivia.
Black people -- Bolivia -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Black people -- Bolivia -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Spanish language -- Dialects -- Bolivia -- Determiners.
Spanish language -- Dialects -- Bolivia -- Grammar.
Spanish language -- Dialects.
Spanish language -- Dialects -- Bolivia.
Spanish language -- Bolivia -- Foreign elements -- African.
Spanish language.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
Black people -- Politics and government.
Spanish language -- Dialects -- Grammar.
Spanish language -- Foreign elements -- African.
Genre/Form Academic theses.
Academic Dissertation.
Electronic books.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: Heck, Moritz. Plurinational Afrobolivianity. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2020] 9783837650563 (OCoLC)1143755023
ISBN 9783839450567 (electronic book)
383945056X (electronic book)
9783837650563 (paperback)
3837650561 (paperback)