Jeff Himpele

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1996, Princeton; B.A. with honors 1989, University of Chicago.

Research interests include:  Anthropology of media; ethnographic/documentary filmmaking; capitalism, cinema and circulation; public spheres, popular politics and indigenous movements; Bolivia, the Andes, Latin America.

Publications
Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics and Indigenous Identity in the Andes. University of Minnestota Press. 2007 (forthcoming).

"Packaging Indigenous Media: An Interview with Ivan Sanjines and Jesus Tapia," American Anthropologist, June 2004.

"The Gran Poder and the Social Movement of the Aymara Middle Class: A Video Essay," Visual Anthropology, Spring 2003.

"Arrival Scenes: Complicity and the Ethnography of Media in the Bolivian Public Sphere," in Media Worlds: Anthropology in New Terrain, 2002, University of California Press.

"Film Distribution as Media: Mapping Difference in the Bolivian Cinemascape," Visual Anthropology Review, Spring 1996.

Films
Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza (1997, co-produced with Quetzil Castaneda.) Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.

Taypi Kala: Six Visions of Tiwanaku (1994). Distributed by University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning.