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

• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Part I. The Adventurous Worlds of Simmel and Tarzan
• Chapter 2: Simmel and Frazer: The Adventure and the Adventurer
• Chapter 3: Adventure in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality: Simmel, Tarzan, and Beyond
• Chapter 4: Tarzan and the Lost Races: Anthropology and Early Science Fiction
• Chapter 5: Avant-garde or Savant-garde: The Eco-Tourist as Tarzan
• Part II. Exhibitionary Adventures
• Chapter 6: They Sold Adventure: Martin and Osa Johnson in the New Hebrides
• Chapter 7: Jacaré: Cold War Warrior from the Jungles of the Amazon
• Chapter 8: The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures
• Part III. High Adventures
• Chapter 9: Five Miles Out: Communion and Commodification among the Mountaineers
• Chapter 10: Crampons and Cook Pots: The Democratization and Feminizations of Adventure on Aconcagua
• Chapter 11: The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love: The Peace Corps as Adventure
• Chapter 12: Doing Africa: Travelers, Adventurers, and American Conquest of Africa
• Part IV. Cross-Cultural Adventures
• Chapter 13: “Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!”: Peacekeeping as Adventure in Namibia
• Chapter 14: A Head for Adventure
• Part V. Bringing Adventure Home
• Chapter 15: Riding Herd on the New World Order: Spectacular Adventuring and U.S. Imperialism
• Chapter 16: Adventure and Regulation in Contemporary Anthropological Fieldwork
• Bibliography
• Index