Convivial constellations in Latin America : from colonial to contemporary times / edited by Luciane Scarato, Fernando Baldraia, and Maya Manzi.

Introduction / Luciane Scarato, Fernando Baldraia and Maya Manzi -- Part 1. Convivial bonds: The neglected nexus between conviviality and inequality / Sérgio Costa -- Political conviviality and the role of opposition and opponents in late twentieth century Latin American political discourse / Osvaldo Barreneche -- Railways and conviviality: the fringes of progress in Minas Gerais, 1841-1930 / Luciane Scarato -- In search of conviviality in Latin American cities: an essay from urban anthropology / Ramiro Segura -- Part 2. Conviviality between norm and praxis: Imperial conviviality: producing difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian world / Karen Graubart -- Mestizaje and conviviality in Brazil, Colombia And Mexico / Peter Wade -- Syncretism and pluralism in the configuration of religious diversity in Brazil / Paula Montero -- Part 3. Contested conviviality: Conviviality on the brink: Blackness, Africanness and marginality in Rio de Janeiro / Tilmann Heil -- Routine violence and the limits of conviviality in a colonial society / Felipe Castro Gutiérrez -- Fighting against or coexisting with drought? Conviviality, inequality and peasant mobility in Northeast Brazil / Maya Manzi -- Epistemologies for conviviality, or Zumbification / Fernando Baldraia -- Final considerations / Luciane Scarato, Fernando Baldraia and Maya Manzi.

"Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this volume 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 Mediaeval 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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