Tarzan was an Eco-Tourist
and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
An important strength of this collection is the ethnographic grounding of the chapters, which directly engage rich ethnographic understandings with Simmel's work. This book is a useful addition to the anthropological literature on travel and tourism, and it is a pleasurable adventure to read. · American AnthropologistAdventure 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 enab…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Vivanco, Luis A. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84545-111-0
- EAN: 9781845451110
- Produktnummer: 4436734
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 494 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 494
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).
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