1st Edition
Convivial Constellations in Latin America From Colonial to Contemporary Times
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.
Introduction
Luciane Scarato, Fernando Baldraia and Maya Manzi
Part 1: Convivial Bonds
1. The Neglected Nexus between Conviviality and Inequality
Sérgio Costa
2. Political Conviviality and the Role of Opposition and Opponents in Late Twentieth-Century Latin American Political Discourse
Osvaldo Barreneche
3. Railways and Conviviality: The Fringes of Progress in Minas Gerais, 1841-1930
Luciane Scarato
4. In Search of Conviviality in Latin American Cities: An Essay from Urban Anthropology
Ramiro Segura
Part 2: Conviviality Between Norm And Praxis
5. Imperial Conviviality: Producing Difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian World
Karen Graubart
6. Mestizaje and Conviviality in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
Peter Wade
7. Syncretism and Pluralism in the Configuration of Religious Diversity in Brazil
Paula Montero
Part 3: Contested Conviviality
8. Conviviality on the Brink: Blackness, Africanness and Marginality in Rio de Janeiro
Tilmann Heil
9. Routine Violence and the Limits of Conviviality in a Colonial Society
Felipe Castro Gutiérrez
10. Fighting Against or Coexisting with Drought? Conviviality, Inequality and Peasant Mobility in Northeast Brazil
Maya Manzi
11. Epistemologies for Conviviality, or Zumbification
Fernando Baldraia
Final Considerations
Luciane Scarato, Fernando Baldraia and Maya Manzi
Biography
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.
