ABSTRACT

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.

part One|60 pages

Convivial bonds

part Two|43 pages

Conviviality between norm and praxis

chapter 5|14 pages

Imperial conviviality

Producing difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian world

part Three|64 pages

Contested conviviality

chapter 8|15 pages

Conviviality on the brink

Blackness, Africanness and marginality in Rio de Janeiro

chapter 10|15 pages

Fighting against or coexisting with drought?

Conviviality, inequality, and peasant mobility in Northeast Brazil