"I'm telling you this because I love you".

Footnotes 1 I draw on Di Leonardo's ([7], 443) concept of "kin work", which makes visible the gendered work required for "the creation and maintenance of kin and quasi-kin networks in advanced industrial societies." This essay follows the parenthetical opening of the fieldwork confessional into the parenthetical spaces within our fieldwork archives, in order to consider the nature of those parentheses and of their complex claims on our writing and relating. In Uitoto kin-making praxis, substances (including ancestral plant foods and medicines, tears, sweat, smoke, etc.) shared over time are needed to make people kin, and processes of gradually coming to matter together have been an essential part of our capacity to build archives of shared memory with and in each other. But Uitoto people know this and hone it.) Animating and animated by shared substances,[3] stories are what make kinship, what make kin of inhuman and alien things (like fieldworkers). [Extracted from the article]