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Funder

• Backlisttransformation EOSC Future [Browse]

Series

Kultur und soziale Praxis. [More in this series]

Biographical/​Historical note

Moritz Heck studied Social and Cultural Anthropology and Spanish at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cologne as a member of the interdisciplinary a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities. His research interests include Afrodescendants in Latin America, indigeneity, race and ethnicity, as well as identity politics and social movements.

Summary note

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.

Dissertation note

Doctoral Thesis Universität zu Köln 2018

Funding information

funded by Backlisttransformation EOSC Future

Language note

In English.

Contents

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

ISBN

• 9783839450567
• 383945056X

OCLC

1148367510

Doi

• 10.14361/9783839450567

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