Families and Adoption

About Krista Van VleetNancy RileySusan Ferguson

Krista E. Van Vleet is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine. Her scholarly interests in adoption and fostering have developed from long-term ethnographic research on the social and linguistic production of relatedness in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes. In Performing Kinship: Narrative Gender and the Intimacies of Power (2008) and in several articles published in journals such as American Anthropologist American Ethnologist and Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Van Vleet explores the hierarchies and intimacies of everyday social life. Her current research focuses on transnational discourses of gender religion and family in Cusco Peru. She teaches courses on Gender and Family in Latin America Global Sexualities Language and Identity Religion in the Andes and Anthropological Research. She received her PhD in Anthropology from The University of Michigan in 1999.