Description
Book SynopsisA unique analysis of the stories, conversations, gossip, public speeches, and other narratives that shape community and identity among peasant women of the Bolivian highlands.
Trade ReviewPerforming Kinship makes a valuable contribution to the study of kinship, but its particular strength lies in the way it bridges an anthropology of relatedness and emotions to issues of political economy and globalization; it is also a wonderful ethnography of Andean life in its own right. * Current Anthropology *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Orthography
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Relative Intimacies, Storied Lives
- Chapter 2. Sullk'ata Contexts: Reflections on Identities and Localities
- Chapter 3. Circulation of Care: A Primer on Sullk'ata Relatedness
- Chapter 4. Narrating Sorrow, Performing Relatedness: A Story Told in Conversation
- Chapter 5. Storied Silences: Adolescent Desires, Gendered Agency, and the Practice of Stealing Women
- Chapter 6. Reframing the Married Couple: Affect and Exchange in Three Parts
- Chapter 7. "Now My Daughter Is Alone": Violence and the Ambiguities of Affinity
- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Reflections on the Dialogical Production of Relatedness
- Appendix A. Chapter 5 Narrative Transcriptions in Quechua and in English
- Appendix B. Chapter 6 Interview Transcriptions in Quechua
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
