South American Perspectives on Cultural Diversity

Federico Escribal, professor at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Argentina), specializes in cultural policies and diversity. He holds an extensive experience in academia, public sector leadership, and private consultancy.

• Acknowledgements; Preface – Second Wives; Introduction; 1.Dhofar; 2.Discussion of References; 3.Definitions; 4. My Positionality; 5. Relationships Before Marriage; 6. Marriage – Main Understandings; 7.Choosing a Spouse; 8.Engagement; 9. Wedding Announcements, Invitations and Photos; 10. Wedding Parties; 11. After the Wedding; 12. Creating a Marital Relationship; 13. Marriage and Placement; 14. End of a Marriage; 15. Second Wives/Co-wives; 16. Children; 17. Differences/Distinctions – Which Culture Does Marriage Better?; 18.Coda; References; Index

“The book represents an original and useful endeavour. This is the first book that is tackling cultural diversity as the global theme enhanced by the UNESCO Convention 2005 in a specific regional perspective of South America. As it is written in English language, it will enlighten the complex situations related to the cultural diversity and cultural policy in Latin America to the worldwide audience. Using concepts developed within Latino American decolonial studies, such as pluriversity and epistemic justice, and offering interculturality as an alternative framework that enables more justice in multicultural society (‘interculturality refuses to treat cultural groups as stable, bounded entities that merely coexist in a shared public sphere’), the book gives complex comparative perspectives but also regional common trends that include voices of artists, scholars, minority activists and cultural operators in a cultural and policy realm.” —Milena Dragićević Šešić, Head of the UNESCO Chair on Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation.“South American Perspectives on Cultural Diversity offers an essential outlooks on cultural policy development and implementation in this part of the world, and points to some of its challenges and limitations, while also providing comparativists with analytical resources to understand distinctive approach to culture and identity that emerge from this context.” —Jonathan Paquette, University of Ottowa, Canada.