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Starting from Quirpini

Starting from Quirpini The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People

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The people of Quirpini, a rural community in the Bolivian Andes, are in constant motion. They visit each other's houses, work in their fields, go to nearby towns for school, market, or official transactions, and travel to Buenos Aires for wage labor. In this rich ethnography, Stuart Alexander Rockefeller describes how these places become intertwined via circuits constituted by the movement of people, goods, and information. Drawing on the work of Henri LeFebvre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Nancy Munn, Rockefeller argues that by their travels, Quirpinis play a role in shaping the places they move through. This compelling study makes important contributions to contemporary debates about spatiality, temporality, power, and culture.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253354976
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.80098414
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 306
Weight: 610g
Height: 236mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 29mm