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Starting from Quirpini – The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People

Autor Stuart Alexande Rockefeller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2010
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253222107
ISBN-10: 0253222109
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 14 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 177 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Part I. Inscriptions; Introduction: Disorientations; 1. Places and History In and About Quirpini; Part II. Faces of a Place; 2. Bicycles and Houses; 3. The Geography of Planting Corn; 4. Carnival and the Spatial Practice of Community; Part III. From Quirpini; 5. Ethnic Politics and the Control of Movement; 6. Placing Bolivia in Quirpini: Civic Ritual and the Power of Context; 7. Where Do You Go When You Go to Buenos Aires?; Conclusion: Coming Back to QuirpiniNotes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"A groundbreaking book [that] re-envisions place as formed by individual movements, trips and digressions as well as a situational context for action." Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

"A beautifully written ethnography. . . . An example of careful and evocative writing about what people do." Laurie Kain Hart, Haverford College

Descriere

Space, movement, and power in the Andes