Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist : : .and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure /

Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist : : .and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure / / ed. by Luis Vivanco, Robert J. Gordon.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Barnard, Alan,
Bradburd, Daniel,
Gordon, Robert J.,
Houston, David L. R.,
Hubbard, Laura,
Lindstrom, Lamont,
Logan, Joy,
Mathers, Kathryn,
McBride, Keally,
Napier, A. David,
Price, Jason J.,
Rubenstein, Steven,
Sheridan, Michael J.,
Stoll, David,
Vivanco, Luis A.,
Whitehead, Neil L.,
Yengoyan, Aram A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Gordon, Robert J.,
Vivanco, Luis,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t List of Illustrations --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Notes on Contributors --   |t Chapter 1: Introduction --   |t Part I. The Adventurous Worlds of Simmel and Tarzan --   |t Chapter 2: Simmel and Frazer: The Adventure and the Adventurer --   |t Chapter 3: Adventure in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality: Simmel, Tarzan, and Beyond --   |t Chapter 4: Tarzan and the Lost Races: Anthropology and Early Science Fiction --   |t Chapter 5: Avant-garde or Savant-garde: The Eco-Tourist as Tarzan --   |t Part II. Exhibitionary Adventures --   |t Chapter 6: They Sold Adventure: Martin and Osa Johnson in the New Hebrides --   |t Chapter 7: Jacaré: Cold War Warrior from the Jungles of the Amazon --   |t Chapter 8: The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures --   |t Part III. High Adventures --   |t Chapter 9: Five Miles Out: Communion and Commodification among the Mountaineers --   |t Chapter 10: Crampons and Cook Pots: The Democratization and Feminizations of Adventure on Aconcagua --   |t Chapter 11: The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love: The Peace Corps as Adventure --   |t Chapter 12: Doing Africa: Travelers, Adventurers, and American Conquest of Africa --   |t Part IV. Cross-Cultural Adventures --   |t Chapter 13: “Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!”: Peacekeeping as Adventure in Namibia --   |t Chapter 14: A Head for Adventure --   |t Part V. Bringing Adventure Home --   |t Chapter 15: Riding Herd on the New World Order: Spectacular Adventuring and U.S. Imperialism --   |t Chapter 16: Adventure and Regulation in Contemporary Anthropological Fieldwork --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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 harmony with nature, using appropriate technology, and helpful to the natives who cannot seem to solve their own problems. Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revealing the previously undiscovered, and experiencing the unadulterated. Prominent anthropologists have come together in this volume to reflect on various aspects of this phenomenon and to discuss contemporary forms of adventure. 
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700 1 |a Gordon, Robert J.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Gordon, Robert J.,   |e editor.  |4 edt  |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 
700 1 |a Houston, David L. R.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Hubbard, Laura,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Lindstrom, Lamont,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Logan, Joy,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Mathers, Kathryn,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a McBride, Keally,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Napier, A. David,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Price, Jason J.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Rubenstein, Steven,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Sheridan, Michael J.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Stoll, David,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Vivanco, Luis A.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Vivanco, Luis,   |e editor.  |4 edt  |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 
700 1 |a Whitehead, Neil L.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Yengoyan, Aram A.,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
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