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Author Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965-

Title Performing kinship : narrative, gender, and the intimacies of power in the Andes / Krista E. Van Vleet
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: relative intimacies, storied lives -- Sullk'ata contexts : reflections on identities and localities -- Circulation of care : a primer on Sullk'ata relatedness -- Narrating sorrow, performing relatedness : a story told in conversation -- Storied silences : adolescent desires, gendered agency, and the practice of stealing women -- Reframing the married couple : affect and exchange in three parts -- "Now my daughter is alone" : violence and the ambiguities of affinity -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-256) and index
Notes English
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Subject Quechua women -- Bolivia -- Social conditions
Kinship -- Bolivia
Oral tradition -- Bolivia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Kinship
Oral tradition
Social conditions
SUBJECT Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015413
Subject Bolivia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292794405
0292794401