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Starting from Quirpini: The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People
Stuart Alexander Rockefeller
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Description for Starting from Quirpini: The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People
Paperback. 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 labour. This work argues that by their travels, they play a role in shaping the places they move through. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSX; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222107
SKU
V9780253222107
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99-50
About Stuart Alexander Rockefeller
Stuart Alexander Rockefeller is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
Reviews for Starting from Quirpini: The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People
... an important contribution to the existing bibliography on the politics of movement.May 4, 2011
Journal of Folklore Research
[O]ffers a nuanced portrait of life in rural Chuquisaca during the 1990s, which sheds light on the dynamic and multi-scalar processes that go into the making of a place. The book contributes to the . . . literature on the social construction of place . . . .Oct. 2013
Bulletin of Latin American Research
[A] groundbreaking book . . . Rockefeller's in-depth descriptions and theoretically savvy analysis guide the reader through the process by which space and place [are] constituted.79.1 2014
Rural Sociology
Starting from Quirpini is a beautifully crafted, accomplished text that is essential reading for those interested in migration, transnationalism, Andean ethnography, and the anthropology of space.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
[T]his is an important book that should be widely read by scholars of the Andes and of migration, as well as those interested in the construction of places and borders.
American Anthropologist
Journal of Folklore Research
[O]ffers a nuanced portrait of life in rural Chuquisaca during the 1990s, which sheds light on the dynamic and multi-scalar processes that go into the making of a place. The book contributes to the . . . literature on the social construction of place . . . .Oct. 2013
Bulletin of Latin American Research
[A] groundbreaking book . . . Rockefeller's in-depth descriptions and theoretically savvy analysis guide the reader through the process by which space and place [are] constituted.79.1 2014
Rural Sociology
Starting from Quirpini is a beautifully crafted, accomplished text that is essential reading for those interested in migration, transnationalism, Andean ethnography, and the anthropology of space.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
[T]his is an important book that should be widely read by scholars of the Andes and of migration, as well as those interested in the construction of places and borders.
American Anthropologist