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Fictive Feasting: Mixing and Parsing Bolivian Popular Sentiment
Author(s) -
Albro Robert
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2000.25.2.142
Subject(s) - kinship , argument (complex analysis) , relation (database) , trope (literature) , genealogy , sociology , history , ethnology , linguistics , anthropology , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , database , computer science
In this article I analyze the vitalizing relationships between fictive kinship (compadrazgo) and Andean cultural practice. I distinguish several recognized strategies of fictive kinship in the region of Quillacollo, Bolivia. While provincial folk are quick to insist that Andean culture, as such, no longer exists in this region, at the same time ritual kinship, recognized as a remainder of Andean cultural practice, is one typical way that "the Andean," as a cultural trope and moral discourse, continues to permeate peoples' lives. This argument uses Fernandez's insights about "wholes" and "parts" to emphasize the play of synecdoches, a regional preoccupation with "partness" and the right relation among parts, expressed by the orchestration of fictive ties.