In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture novel political articulations legal reform and
processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the
country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants
in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and political
transformations shaping the country as a whole. Moritz Heck analyzes Afrobolivian social and
cultural practices at the intersections of local communities politics and the law shedding
light on novel articulations of Afrobolivianity and evolving processes of collective
identification. This study also contributes to broader anthropological debates on blackness and
indigeneity in Latin America by pointing out their conceptual entanglements and continuous
interactions in political and social practice.
