num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Starting from Quirpini: The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People
publisher: Indiana University Press