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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography -- One. Introduction -- Two. Sullk'ata Contexts -- Three. Circulation of Care -- Four. Narrating Sorrow, Performing Relatedness -- Five. Storied Silences -- Six. Reframing the Married Couple -- Seven. "Now My Daughter Is Alone" -- Eight. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Chapter 5 Narrative Transcriptions in Quechua and in English -- Appendix B. Chapter 6 Interview Transcriptions in Quechua -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers a rich ethnography of a group of young mothers in residential care in Peru. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people's efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurities of today's Peru. State and nonstate participants involved in the women's intimate lives influence how the women see themselves as mothers, students, and citizens. Both deserving of care and responsible for caring for others, the young women must navigate practices interwoven with a range of racial, gendered, and class hierarchies. Groundbreaking and original, Hierarchies of Care highlights the moral engagement of young women seeking to understand themselves and their place in society in the presence of circumstances that are both precarious and full of hope.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Young Mothers, Moral Experience, and the Politics of Care -- Chapter 2. Dimensions of Precarity and Possibility in Peru -- Chapter 3. Shaping (Modern) Mothers in Palomitay -- Chapter 4. Dynamic Selves, Uncertain Desires -- Chapter 5. Making Images, (Re)Visioning Mothers (a Photography Workshop) -- Chapter 6. Moral Dialogues, Caring Dilemmas (a Theater Workshop) -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

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 neoliberal transformations. From the perspective of those "left behind"—Catholic family and community members—conversion empties the future. Nevertheless, the necessary labor of dissolving or reconfiguring social relationships is undertaken by both Catholics and evangelical Protestants and sheds light on the production of sociality in 21st century Bolivia.

This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context