Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist
and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
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 &quote;eco-tourist:&quote; a cosmopolitan striving to live in harmony with nature, using appropriate…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78238-195-2
- EAN: 9781782381952
- Produktnummer: 22583281
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'022 KB
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