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Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist: ...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Luis Vivanco (Ed.)
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Description for Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist: ...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Paperback. 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. This volume reflects on various aspects of this phenomenon and discusses contemporary forms of adventure. Editor(s): Vivanco, Luis A.; Gordon, Robert James. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845451110
SKU
V9781845451110
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About Luis Vivanco (Ed.)
Luis Vivanco is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. His research focuses on the cultural politics of environmentalism and ecotourism in Latin America. He is author of Green Encounters: Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica (Berghahn Books, 2006).
Reviews for Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist: ...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
“The editors and the authors of the essays in this book have made a clear attempt to unravel the complexity of adventure, including a re-affirmation of the importance of Simmel’s seminal essays on adventure and the Alpine journey, and in doing so have offered the reader some fascinating analyses of adventure in contemporary society.” · Environmental Sciences “An important ... Read more