Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the AndesIn the highland region of Sullk'ata, located in the rural Bolivian Andes, habitual activities such as sharing food, work, and stories create a sense of relatedness among people. Through these day-to-day interactions—as well as more unusual events—individuals negotiate the affective bonds and hierarchies of their relationships. In Performing Kinship, Krista E. Van Vleet reveals the ways in which relatedness is evoked, performed, and recast among the women of Sullk'ata. Portraying relationships of camaraderie and conflict, Van Vleet argues that narrative illuminates power relationships, which structure differences among women as well as between women and men. She also contends that in the Andes gender cannot be understood without attention to kinship. Stories such as that of the young woman who migrates to the city to do domestic work and later returns to the highlands voicing a deep ambivalence about the traditional authority of her in-laws provide enlightening examples of the ways in which storytelling enables residents of Sullk'ata to make sense of events and link themselves to one another in a variety of relationships. A vibrant ethnography, Performing Kinship offers a rare glimpse into an compelling world. |
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... Chapter 5 Narrative Transcriptions in Quechua and in English_197 Appendix B. Chapter 6 Interview Transcriptions in Quechua 205 Notes 209 Glossary 225 Bibliography 229 Index 257 Kilometers Sullk'ata is located in the Province of Chayanta ...
... Chapter 2 appeared in “Partial Theories: on gos- sip, envy and ethnography in the Andes,” Ethnography 4(4) (2003): 491–519. Chapter 4 includes material previously published in Bruce mannheim and Krista Van Vleet, “The Dialogics of ...
... Chapter 6 occurs infrequently in sullk'ata and is also, of course, part of a broader pattern of do- mestic violence that occurs among individuals of virtually all social classes, eth- nicities, genders, sexual orientations, and ages ...
... Chapter 2 ) , refusing to live with in- laws removes daughters - in - law from one significant affective and social context through which they are made into kin . Sullk'atas draw upon layers of personal experience , local and national ...
... Chapters 4 and 5). i also partici- pated in endless hours of unrecorded informal conversation and gossip (Van Vleet 2003b). 3. FIELDNOTES i took extensive fieldnotes in order to document everyday interactions and practices, ritual ...
Contents
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Circulation of Care A Primer on Sullkata Relatedness | 55 |
Narrating Sorrow Performing Relatedness A Story Told in Conversation | 79 |
Storied Silences Adolescent Desires Gendered Agency and the Practice of Stealing Women | 99 |
Reframing the Married Couple Affect and Exchange in Three Parts | 129 |
Now My Daughter Is Alone Violence and the Ambiguities of Affinity | 161 |
Conclusion Reflections on the Dialogical Production of Relatedness | 183 |
Chapter 5 Narrative Transcriptions in Quechua and in English | 197 |
Chapter 6 Interview Transcriptions in Quechua | 205 |
Notes | 209 |
Glossary | 225 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 257 |