Abstract
In this article I analyze vitalizing relationships between fictive kinship (compadrazgo) and Andean cultural practice. I distinguish several recognized strategies of fictive kinship in region of Quillacollo, Bolivia. While provincial folk are quick to insist that Andean culture, as such, no longer exists in this region, at 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 play of synecdoches, a regional preoccupation with partness and right relation among parts, expressed by orchestration of fictive ties.
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