Tarzan was an Eco-Tourist : ...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vivanco, Luis.

Contributor:

Gordon, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adventure and adventurers.

Anthropology.

Tourism.

Local Subjects:

Adventure and adventurers.

Anthropology.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2006.

Summary:

Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon. In their day, Edgar Rice Burrough''s novels enjoyed great popularity because Tarzan represented the consummate colonial-era adventurer: a white man whose noble civility enabled him to communicate with and control savage peoples and animals. The contemporary Tarzan of movies and cartoons is in many ways just as popular, but carries different connotations. Tarzan is now the consummate ""eco-tourist:"" a cosmopolitan striving to live in harm

Contents:

Tarzan was an Eco-Tourist... and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I. The Adventurous Worlds of Simmel and Tarzan; Simmel and Frazer: The Adventure and The Adventurer; Adventure in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality: Simmel, Tarzan, and Beyond; Tarzan and the Lost Races: Anthropology and Early Science Fiction; Avant-garde or Savant-garde: The Eco-Tourist as Tarzan; PART II. Exhibitionary Adventures; They Sold Adventure: Martin and Osa Johnson in the New Hebrides

Jacaré: Cold War Warrior from the Jungles of the AmazonThe Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures; PART III. High Adventures; Five Miles Out: Communion and Commodification among the Mountaineers; Crampons and Cook Pots: The Democratization and Feminizations of Adventure on Aconcagua; The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love: The Peace Corps as Adventure; Doing Africa: Travelers, Adventurers, and American Conquest of Africa; PART IV. Cross-Cultural Adventures; "Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!": Peacekeeping as Adventure in Namibia; A Head for Adventure

PART V. Bringing Adventure HomeRiding Herd on the New World Order: Spectacular Adventuring and U.S. Imperialism; Adventure and Regulation in Contemporary Anthropological Fieldwork; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781782381952

1782381953

OCLC:

879551339