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Berghahn Books Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist ...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure 2006 Edition by Luis Vivanco, Robert J. Gordon
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 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. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsChapter 1. IntroductionRobert J. GordonPART I: THE ADVENTUROUS WORLDS OF SIMMEL AND TARZANChapter 2. Simmel and Frazer: The Adventure and the AdventurerAram A. YengoyanChapter 3. Adventure in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality: Simmel, Tarzan, and BeyondDaniel BradburdChapter 4. Tarzan and the Lost Races: Anthropology and Early Science FictionAlan BarnardChapter 5. Avant-garde or Savant-garde: The Eco-Tourist as TarzanA. David NapierPART II: EXHIBITIONARY ADVENTURESChapter 6. They Sold Adventure: Martin and Osa Johnson in the New HebridesLamont LindstromChapter 7. Jacare: Cold War Warrior from the Jungles of the AmazonNeil L. WhiteheadChapter 8. The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual AdventuresLuis A. VivancoPART III: HIGH ADVENTURESChapter 9. Five Miles Out: Communion and Commodification among the MountaineersDavid L.R. HoustonChapter 10. Crampons and Cook Pots: The Democratization and Feminizations of Adventure on AconcaguaJoy LoganChapter 11. The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love: The Peace Corps as AdventureMichael J. Sheridan and Jason J. PriceChapter 12. Doing Africa: Travelers, Adventurers, and American Conquest of AfricaKathryn Mathers and Laura HubbardPART IV: CROSS-CULTURAL ADVENTURESChapter 13. "Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!": Peacekeeping as Adventure in NamibiaRobert J. GordonChapter 14. A Head for AdventureSteven RubensteinPART V: BRINGING ADVENTURE HOMEChapter 15. Riding Herd on the New World Order: Spectacular Adventuring and U.S. ImperialismKeally McBrideChapter 16. Adventure and Regulation in Contemporary Anthropological FieldworkDavid StollBibliographyIndex