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Author Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965-

Title Performing kinship [electronic resource] : narrative, gender, and the intimacies of power in the Andes / Krista E. Van Vleet.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiv, 273 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Quechua women -- Bolivia -- Social conditions.
Kinship -- Bolivia.
Oral tradition -- Bolivia.
Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 1982-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292717077 (cl. : alk. paper)
0292717075 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780292717084 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717083 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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