Abstract:Traditional, Indigenous houses in Puno, Peru, were built using adobe bricks, stone, and wood. Today, young Indigenous couples are building houses that utilize modern materials such as concrete, brick, and steel. In this paper, I analyze the effects that changing materialities of house construction practices have on the durability and breadth of kin-relationships in Puno . I argue that these changes are possible due to the kind of personhood that houses occupy within kin networks in the Puno and the Andes. Furt… Show more
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