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Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2009, 258-267 /project/acontracorriente Review/Reseña Jeff D. Himpele, Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. The Lion King vs. Evo Morales? Adventures in the Andean Vision World José Antonio Lucero University of Washington Jeff Himpele is not only an anthropologist; he has also played one on TV. (Sorry about that, I could not resist). Commercial clichés aside, Himpele has written an excellent and challenging book that deserves a broad readership. A visual anthropologist and filmmaker, Himpele provides a series of remarkable vantage points from which to observe the circulation of images, discourses, and ideas of indigeneity in Bolivia. This book offers a theoretically informed history of key moments in Bolivian The Lion King vs. Evo Morales 259 film history, a fascinating ethnography of a Bolivian television program that seems something like an Andean answer to both Oprah and The People’s Court, and an original contribution to our understanding of the converging processes of “popularizing indigenism” and “indigenizing the popular” that has culminated in (among other things) the election of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia. For scholars of Bolivia, visual anthropology, and indigeneity, Circuits of Culture is a must-read. Between his introductory and concluding chapters, Himpele divides his book into three parts. For those who are looking for new teaching materials on Bolivia, it should be noted that one of the virtues of this book is that these three parts read well together, b