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The Everest Effect. Nature, Culture, Ideology.
Elizabeth Mazzolini
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Description for The Everest Effect. Nature, Culture, Ideology.
"T""he Everest Effect" is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values. Series: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFS; RGC; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies at this site of environmental extremity, she shows both how nature is shaped—physically and symbolically—by cultural values and how extreme natural phenomena shape culture.
Nostalgia, myth, and legend are intrinsic features of the conversations that surround discussions of historic and contemporary climbs of Everest, and those conversations themselves reflect changing relations between ... Read more
In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies at this site of environmental extremity, she shows both how nature is shaped—physically and symbolically—by cultural values and how extreme natural phenomena shape culture.
Nostalgia, myth, and legend are intrinsic features of the conversations that surround discussions of historic and contemporary climbs of Everest, and those conversations themselves reflect changing relations between ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817318932
SKU
V9780817318932
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About Elizabeth Mazzolini
Elizabeth Mazzolini is an assistant professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA.
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