Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist: and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845451112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is author of numerous books and articles, including The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass and Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925.. 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).Robert Gordon is Professor of
"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 strength of this collection is the ethnographic grounding of the chapters, which directly engage rich ethnograph
The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon. Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. 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. 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. Pro