Negros devenires : siguiendo a las trayectorias de las negritudes materiales en Bolivia

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Escate, Luis Fernando de Jesus Reyes
• Orientador(a): Steil, Carlos Alberto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: spa
• Palavras-chave em Português: Negritude; Etnografia; Bolívia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Alterity; Anthropology; Blackness; Ontology
• Palavras-chave em Espanhol: Afro; Antropología; Alteridad; Negritud; Ontología
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/132861

The objective of this dissertation is to analyse the processes of black or Afrobolivian identity formation in the Afrobolivian community of Tocaña, by examining the meshwork of relations that constitute the fluxes of material blacknesses. The concept of material blacknesses, which I aim to trace, emerges from the use of the concept of “materials” as coined by Tim Ingold. To achieve this aim, I have conducted ethnographic research that employs participant observation as a fundamental tool. My ethnographic approach aims to fully acknowledge the ways in which I have been affected by my experiences with the Tocañeros. In addition, it is an auto-reflexive ontography that blurs the dichotomy of researcher/researched. Lastly, it reflects the concept of anexactness as described by Deleuze, which implies both academic rigor and intentional inexactness. Finally, the theoretical framework revolves around three analytical categories: material blacknesses, alteration of the logic of inversion and the radicalization of alterity. These concepts were generated based on the lived experiences of the community of Tocaña, and are in horizontal dialogue with realist and postcolonial epistemologies. It is through this dialogue, and based on the ontological turn in the social sciences, that this dissertation aims to contribute to the debate about blackness.