Convivial Constellations in Latin America

Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this volume considers the ways in which Latin America has managed to sustain forms of living together with difference across time and space, presenting studies that shed new light on our understanding of the relationship between inequality, difference and sociability.

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.

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