{"product_id":"circuits-of-culture-jeff-d-himpele-9780816639199","title":"Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Volume 20","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against the background of Bolivia's prominent urban festival parades and the country's recent appearance on the front lines of antiglobalization movements, Circuits of Culture is the first social analysis of Bolivian film and television, their circulation through the social and national landscape, and the emergence of the country's indigenous video movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Jeff Himpele's examination is an ethnography of the popular television program, The Open Tribunal of the People. The indigenous and underrepresented majorities in La Paz have used the talk show to publicize their social problems and seek medical and legal assistance from the show's hosts and the political party they launched. Himpele studies the program in order to identify the possibilities of the mass media as a site for political discourse and as a means of social action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharting as well the history of Bolivia's media culture, Himpele perceptively investigates cinematic media as sites for understanding the modernization of Bolivia, its social movements, and the formation of indigenous identities, and in doing so provides a new framework for exploring the circulation of culture as a way of creating publics, political movements, and producing media. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff D. Himpele is associate director for the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University. He is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker; his films include the award-winning \u003ci\u003eIncidents of Travel in Chichen Itza\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTaypi Kala: Six Visions of Tiwanaku.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff D. Himpele\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816639191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816639199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.92h x 7.12w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 315","brand":"Jeff D. Himpele","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926483468543,"sku":"9780816639199","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_30235f75-244e-4a73-8b57-585af6f1af18.jpg?v=1681083322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/circuits-of-culture-jeff-d-himpele-9780816639199","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}