Krista E Van Vleet
Biographic Data
| ID | 86043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krista E Van Vleet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krista E |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Vleet |
| SIGNATURE | VAN VLEET K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5588-1568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based differences in isotope and ancient DNA (aDNA) data are interpreted for this period, but often without discussing or differentiating this concept further. Using a meta-analysis of existing studies from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age, we argue that sch…
Maledictive Language
Gossip and rumor link the politics of face‐to‐face interaction with the circulation of information in wider publics. Gossip and rumor sometimes are viewed negatively as forms of talk that are malicious or not credible; however, gossip and rumor also enable individuals to align themselves with others and establish bonds of intimacy. Gossip and rumor provide a rich arena for the analysis of language as form and language as social activity. Attentio…
Between Scene and Situation
Gendered and racialized identities are jointly produced among social actors, often in ways that they cannot individually control. Drawing on ethnographic research in the city of Cusco, Peru and the surrounding region, I explore how gendered indigeneity is produced as a position of "alterity," or otherness, in strategic ways by young women. I focus on a theatrical performance, "History of Natasia," which was collaboratively created and performed b…
Intimate indigeneities
In this finely detailed ethnography, anthropologist Andrew Canessa explores the meaning of indigeneity for the people of Wila Kjarka, an Aymara-speaking community located in the northern Andean hig
Babies without Borders
On Devils and the Dissolution of Sociality
In the Andean highlands of Bolivia, people sometimes express their ambivalence over the religious conversion of family and community members through stories about evangelical Protestants who have been possessed by Santuku or the devil. The article analyzes these narratives as part of a larger genre of devil stories and as a window onto the multiple ways Andean Catholics link migration, religious conversion, and death in the context of broader neo…
Narrating Violence and Negotiating Belonging
Tinkuys, o “batallas rituales,” son peleas a puñetazos que ocurren durante fiestas católicas en algunas partes de los Andes de Bolivia y Perú. Aunque sus representaciones no circulan abiertamente, luchadores recuerdan sus peleas en días y, a veces, años después de una batalla. Basándome en la narración de un campeón del tinkuy, sugiero que peleadores pueden producir identidades complejas. En la Bolivia contemporánea pelear tinkuy implica ser “ind…
Performing Kinship
We Had Already Come to Love Her
Adolescent Ambiguities and the Negotiation of Belonging in the Andes
Although typically marginal to conceptions of citizenship, children also negotiate their belonging to the nation. This article explores the ways adolescent girls in a rural region of Bolivia use clothing to identify themselves with various collectivities: nation, region, and family. Their consumption and displays of fashion are shaped by national and local discourses of gender, race, and the civilized. Navigating multiple identifications simultan…
Partial Theories
Gossip is intertwined with the practice of ethnography both in the collection of evidence and in the retelling of stories about other people. Yet ethnographers have directed scant attention to gossiping in particular cultural and linguistic contexts or to its methodological and epistemological implications. Drawing on fieldwork in a small community in the Bolivian Andes, I investigate gossiping as a social practice and narrative genre in which bo…
The intimacies of power
In the Bolivian Andes although violence between spouses is more frequent, violence also erupts between women who are affines. By examining events of violence through the discourses and practices that sustain asymmetries of power among affines, I demonstrate that kinship and violence in the highland Andean region of'Sullk'ata are shaped by multiple inequalities and embedded in, yet extend beyond, the domestic arena. Incorporating violence into an …
The Dialogics of Southern Quechua Narrative
Southern Quechua conversational narratives aredialogicalin four senses. First, at theformallevel, the narrative is produced between interlocutors; second, narrativeembedsdiscourse within discourse by means of quotations or indirect discourse; third, implicit or hidden dialogue between texts is brought out through theintertextualreference to other coexisting narratives; and, fourth, there is a complex pattern of participation through which dialogu…
The Dialogics of Southern Quechua Narrative
Southern Quechua conversational narratives aredialogicalin four senses. First, at theformallevel, the narrative is produced between interlocutors; second, narrativeembedsdiscourse within discourse by means of quotations or indirect discourse; third, implicit or hidden dialogue between texts is brought out through theintertextualreference to other coexisting narratives; and, fourth, there is a complex pattern of participation through which dialogu…
The intimacies of power
In the Bolivian Andes although violence between spouses is more frequent, violence also erupts between women who are affines. By examining events of violence through the discourses and practices that sustain asymmetries of power among affines, I demonstrate that kinship and violence in the highland Andean region of'Sullk'ata are shaped by multiple inequalities and embedded in, yet extend beyond, the domestic arena. Incorporating violence into an …
Partial Theories
Gossip is intertwined with the practice of ethnography both in the collection of evidence and in the retelling of stories about other people. Yet ethnographers have directed scant attention to gossiping in particular cultural and linguistic contexts or to its methodological and epistemological implications. Drawing on fieldwork in a small community in the Bolivian Andes, I investigate gossiping as a social practice and narrative genre in which bo…
Narrating Violence and Negotiating Belonging
Tinkuys, o “batallas rituales,” son peleas a puñetazos que ocurren durante fiestas católicas en algunas partes de los Andes de Bolivia y Perú. Aunque sus representaciones no circulan abiertamente, luchadores recuerdan sus peleas en días y, a veces, años después de una batalla. Basándome en la narración de un campeón del tinkuy, sugiero que peleadores pueden producir identidades complejas. En la Bolivia contemporánea pelear tinkuy implica ser “ind…
We Had Already Come to Love Her
On Devils and the Dissolution of Sociality
In the Andean highlands of Bolivia, people sometimes express their ambivalence over the religious conversion of family and community members through stories about evangelical Protestants who have been possessed by Santuku or the devil. The article analyzes these narratives as part of a larger genre of devil stories and as a window onto the multiple ways Andean Catholics link migration, religious conversion, and death in the context of broader neo…
Between Scene and Situation
Gendered and racialized identities are jointly produced among social actors, often in ways that they cannot individually control. Drawing on ethnographic research in the city of Cusco, Peru and the surrounding region, I explore how gendered indigeneity is produced as a position of "alterity," or otherness, in strategic ways by young women. I focus on a theatrical performance, "History of Natasia," which was collaboratively created and performed b…
Adolescent Ambiguities and the Negotiation of Belonging in the Andes
Although typically marginal to conceptions of citizenship, children also negotiate their belonging to the nation. This article explores the ways adolescent girls in a rural region of Bolivia use clothing to identify themselves with various collectivities: nation, region, and family. Their consumption and displays of fashion are shaped by national and local discourses of gender, race, and the civilized. Navigating multiple identifications simultan…
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based differences in isotope and ancient DNA (aDNA) data are interpreted for this period, but often without discussing or differentiating this concept further. Using a meta-analysis of existing studies from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age, we argue that sch…
The Dialogics of Southern Quechua Narrative
Southern Quechua conversational narratives aredialogicalin four senses. First, at theformallevel, the narrative is produced between interlocutors; second, narrativeembedsdiscourse within discourse by means of quotations or indirect discourse; third, implicit or hidden dialogue between texts is brought out through theintertextualreference to other coexisting narratives; and, fourth, there is a complex pattern of participation through which dialogu…
The intimacies of power
In the Bolivian Andes although violence between spouses is more frequent, violence also erupts between women who are affines. By examining events of violence through the discourses and practices that sustain asymmetries of power among affines, I demonstrate that kinship and violence in the highland Andean region of'Sullk'ata are shaped by multiple inequalities and embedded in, yet extend beyond, the domestic arena. Incorporating violence into an …
Adolescent Ambiguities and the Negotiation of Belonging in the Andes
Although typically marginal to conceptions of citizenship, children also negotiate their belonging to the nation. This article explores the ways adolescent girls in a rural region of Bolivia use clothing to identify themselves with various collectivities: nation, region, and family. Their consumption and displays of fashion are shaped by national and local discourses of gender, race, and the civilized. Navigating multiple identifications simultan…
Partial Theories
Gossip is intertwined with the practice of ethnography both in the collection of evidence and in the retelling of stories about other people. Yet ethnographers have directed scant attention to gossiping in particular cultural and linguistic contexts or to its methodological and epistemological implications. Drawing on fieldwork in a small community in the Bolivian Andes, I investigate gossiping as a social practice and narrative genre in which bo…
Performing Kinship
We Had Already Come to Love Her
Narrating Violence and Negotiating Belonging
Tinkuys, o “batallas rituales,” son peleas a puñetazos que ocurren durante fiestas católicas en algunas partes de los Andes de Bolivia y Perú. Aunque sus representaciones no circulan abiertamente, luchadores recuerdan sus peleas en días y, a veces, años después de una batalla. Basándome en la narración de un campeón del tinkuy, sugiero que peleadores pueden producir identidades complejas. En la Bolivia contemporánea pelear tinkuy implica ser “ind…
On Devils and the Dissolution of Sociality
In the Andean highlands of Bolivia, people sometimes express their ambivalence over the religious conversion of family and community members through stories about evangelical Protestants who have been possessed by Santuku or the devil. The article analyzes these narratives as part of a larger genre of devil stories and as a window onto the multiple ways Andean Catholics link migration, religious conversion, and death in the context of broader neo…
Babies without Borders
Intimate indigeneities
In this finely detailed ethnography, anthropologist Andrew Canessa explores the meaning of indigeneity for the people of Wila Kjarka, an Aymara-speaking community located in the northern Andean hig
Between Scene and Situation
Gendered and racialized identities are jointly produced among social actors, often in ways that they cannot individually control. Drawing on ethnographic research in the city of Cusco, Peru and the surrounding region, I explore how gendered indigeneity is produced as a position of "alterity," or otherness, in strategic ways by young women. I focus on a theatrical performance, "History of Natasia," which was collaboratively created and performed b…
Maledictive Language
Gossip and rumor link the politics of face‐to‐face interaction with the circulation of information in wider publics. Gossip and rumor sometimes are viewed negatively as forms of talk that are malicious or not credible; however, gossip and rumor also enable individuals to align themselves with others and establish bonds of intimacy. Gossip and rumor provide a rich arena for the analysis of language as form and language as social activity. Attentio…
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based differences in isotope and ancient DNA (aDNA) data are interpreted for this period, but often without discussing or differentiating this concept further. Using a meta-analysis of existing studies from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age, we argue that sch…
Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)