Krista E. Van Vleet is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. She lives in Bath, Maine.

• 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

Performing 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)

Krista E. Van Vleet is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. She lives in Bath, Maine.

• 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

Performing 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)

Krista E. Van Vleet is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. She lives in Bath, Maine.

• 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

Performing 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)