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Tarzan was an eco-tourist-- : and other tales in the anthropology of adventure /
Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Robert J. Gordon
- Part I: The adventurous worlds of Simmel and Tarzan. Simmel and Frazer : the adventure and the adventurer / Aram A. Yengoyan ; Adventure in the Zeitgeist, adventures in reality : Simmel, Tarzan, and beyond / Daniel Bradburd ; Tarzan and the lost races : anthropology and early science fiction / Alan Barnard ; Avant-garde or savant-garde : the eco-tourist as Tarzan / A. David Napier
- Part II: Exhibitionary adventures. They sold adventure : Martin and Osa Johnson in the New Hebrides / Lamont Lindstrom ; Jacaré : Cold War warrior from the jungles of the Amazon / Neil L. Whitehead ; The work of environmentalism in an age of televisual adventures / Luis A. Vivanco
- Part III: High adventures. Five miles out : communion and commodification among the mountaineers / David L.R. Houston ; Crampons and cook pots : the democratization and feminizations of adventure on Aconcagua / Joy Logan ; The toughest job you'll ever love : the Peace Corps as adventure / Michael J. Sheridan and Jason J. Price ; Doing Africa : travelers, adventurers, and American conquest of Africa / Kathryn Mathers and Laura Hubbard
- Part IV: Cross-cultural adventures. "Oh shucks, here comes UNTAG!" " Peacekeeping as adventure in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon ; A head for adventure / Steven Rubenstein
- Part V: Bringing adventure home. Riding herd on the new world order : spectacular adventuring and U.S. imperialism / Keally McBride ; Adventure and regulation in contemporary anthropological fieldwork / David Stoll.