Performing Kinship

Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes

Autor: Krista E. Van Vleet

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In the highland region of Sullk'ata, located in the rural Bolivian Andes, habitual activities such a...

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Autor

Krista E. Van Vleet

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2008

Pagini

288

EAN

9780292717084

ISBN

0292717083

Enbook ID

04872773

Editura

University of Texas Press

Greutate

474

Dimensiuni

156 x 228 x 20

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In 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 a compelling world.

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