Produktbild
Luis (Hrsg.) Vivanco

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

Buch

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 help… Mehr

CHF 158.00

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

Produktdetails


Weitere Autoren: Gordon, Robert J. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-84545-110-3
  • EAN: 9781845451103
  • Produktnummer: 19825485
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 340 S.

Über den Autor


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).

3 weitere Werke von Luis (Hrsg.) Vivanco:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.