Metro Australia — January 2018

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Down and out in Bolivia

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in the way that stories of this sort usually are – it’s a struggle

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(Werner Herzog, 1982) have obvious colonialist themes at

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standing – and the destructiveness of Western cultures’

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there at all, it’s easy to miss it entirely.

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pointment. In particular,)TMFKDnever draws a connection

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of career and family, and the displacement of his own kin.

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interested in investigating any such comparisons.

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of political urgency in his6NKE "QDDJprojects, which so far

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as we enter a renewed age of “other” fearing’. Miraudo went

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tual spine to make its tale of survival rise above mere genre

thrills and good performances.

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survival rise above mere genre thrills and good performances.