Performing Kinship : Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes

Acknowledgments ix A Note on Orthography xiii ONE Introduction Relative Intimacies, Storied Lives 1 TWO Sullk'ata Contexts Reflections on Identities and Localities 27 THREE Circulation of Care A Primer on Sullk'ata Relatedness 55 FOUR Narrating Sorrow, Performing Relatedness A Story Told in Conversation 79 FIVE Storied Silences Adolescent Desires, Gendered Agency, and the Practice of Stealing Women 99 SIX Reframing the Married Couple Affect and Exchange in Three Parts 129 SEVEN "Now My Daughter Is Alone" Violence and the Ambiguities of Affinity 161 EIGHT Conclusion Reflections on the Dialogical Production of Relatedness 183 Appendix A. 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