{"product_id":"tarzan-was-an-eco-tourist-and-other-tales-in-the-anthropology-of-adventure-9781845451103","title":"Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist: ...and Other Tales in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAdventure 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 cannot seem to solve their own problems. 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. Prominent anthropologists have come together in this volume to reflect on various aspects of this phenomenon and to discuss contemporary forms of adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“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.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Environmental Sciences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“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.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  American Anthropologist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert J. Gordon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: THE ADVENTUROUS WORLDS OF SIMMEL AND TARZAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Simmel and Frazer: The Adventure and the Adventurer\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAram A. Yengoyan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Adventure in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality: Simmel, Tarzan, and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaniel Bradburd\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tarzan and the Lost Races: Anthropology and Early Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlan Barnard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Avant-garde or Savant-garde: The Eco-Tourist as Tarzan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eA. David Napier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: EXHIBITIONARY ADVENTURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e They Sold Adventure: Martin and Osa Johnson in the New Hebrides\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLamont Lindstrom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Jacaré: Cold War Warrior from the Jungles of the Amazon\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNeil L. Whitehead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tChapter 8. The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLuis A. Vivanco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: HIGH ADVENTURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eFive Miles Out: Communion and Commodification among the Mountaineers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid L.R. Houston\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Crampons and Cook Pots: The Democratization and Feminizations of Adventure on Aconcagua\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoy Logan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love: The Peace Corps as Adventure\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael J. Sheridan and Jason J. Price\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Doing Africa: Travelers, Adventurers, and American Conquest of Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKathryn Mathers and Laura Hubbard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: CROSS-CULTURAL ADVENTURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!”: Peacekeeping as Adventure in Namibia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert J. Gordon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Head for Adventure\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSteven Rubenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART V: BRINGING ADVENTURE HOME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eRiding Herd on the New World Order: Spectacular Adventuring and U.S. Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKeally McBride\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e Adventure and Regulation in Contemporary Anthropological Fieldwork\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Stoll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042964865367,"sku":"9781845451103","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451103.jpg?v=1750956429","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tarzan-was-an-eco-tourist-and-other-tales-in-the-anthropology-of-adventure-9781845451103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}