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Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this book considers the ways in which Latin America, a continent marked by deep inequalities, has managed to afford, create, sustain, and contest forms of living together with difference across time and space. Interdisciplinary in approach and presenting studies from various nations across the continent - from the medieval period to the present day - it considers the ways in which Latin America might contribute to our understanding of the relationship between inequality, difference, diversity, and sociability. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, development studies, postcolonial and social theory with interests in Latin American studies, and in the contingencies and contradictions of living together in profoundly unequal societies.
List of contents
Introduction Part 1: Convivial Bonds 1. The Neglected Nexus between Conviviality and Inequality 2. Political Conviviality and the Role of Opposition and Opponents in Late Twentieth-Century Latin American Political Discourse 3. Railways and Conviviality: The Fringes of Progress in Minas Gerais, 1841-1930 4. In Search of Conviviality in Latin American Cities: An Essay from Urban Anthropology Part 2: Conviviality Between Norm And Praxis 5. Imperial Conviviality: Producing Difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian World 6. Mestizaje and Conviviality in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico 7. Syncretism and Pluralism in the Configuration of Religious Diversity in Brazil Part 3: Contested Conviviality 8. Conviviality on the Brink: Blackness, Africanness and Marginality in Rio de Janeiro 9. Routine Violence and the Limits of Conviviality in a Colonial Society 10. Fighting Against or Coexisting with Drought? Conviviality, Inequality and Peasant Mobility in Northeast Brazil 11. Epistemologies for Conviviality, or Zumbification Final Considerations
About the author
Luciane Scarato, postdoctoral researcher at Mecila, São Paulo, Brazil and at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Fernando Baldraia, postdoctoral researcher at Mecila, São Paulo, Brazil and at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Maya Manzi, postdoctoral researcher at Mecila, São Paulo, Brazil and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Germany.
Summary
Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this book considers the ways in which Latin America, a continent marked by deep inequalities, has managed to afford, create, sustain, and contest forms of living together with difference across time and space. Interdisciplinary in approach and presenting studies from various nations across the continent – from the medieval period to the present day – it considers the ways in which Latin America might contribute to our understanding of the relationship between inequality, difference, diversity, and sociability. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, development studies, postcolonial and social theory with interests in Latin American studies, and in the contingencies and contradictions of living together in profoundly unequal societies.
