Cultured Travel Guide Books - Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist...: And Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9781845451110
ISBN: 1845451112
Label: Berghahn Books
Manufacturer: Berghahn Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2006-09-30
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Studio: Berghahn Books |
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Summary: Even public library holdings will find it intriguing.
Comment: College-level collections strong in cultural anthropology or environmental studies and sociology will find Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist suitable for display with its catchy cover art and perfect for college-level analysis, coming from two anthropology professors who examine the changing nature and effects of the concept of adventure in both tourism and culture. Chapters consider modern forms of adventure, contrast it with ideas from the past, and provide excellent analysis of shifts in perspective and how and why they occurred. Even public library holdings will find it intriguing.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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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 "ecotourist": 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.
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