North-South Dialogues in Contexts of Conviviality-Inequality. The Indigenous Question at the Festival Horizonte ’82 in West Berlin and the Mediation Role of Darcy Ribeiro

Abstract

The Festival Horizonte ’82 held in the spring-summer of 1982 in West Berlin was one of the largest cultural events with a focus on Latin America held in Europe. With an extraordinary deployment of resources, West Berlin tried to position itself as a space for dialogue and openness at a time marked by the end of the Cold War. In the context of the almost total absence of representatives of indigenous communities among those invited to the event, in this article we propose to analyse Horizonte ’82 from the analytical perspective of conviviality-inequality, focusing on the different positions, entanglements and negotiations that unfolded around the indigenous question based on the interventions of German ethnologists and of the anthropologist, politician and writer Darcy Ribeiro as “mediator”.