Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist - ...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2006
Editors:	Luis Vivanco • Robert J Gordon
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84545-110-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-84545-110-4
Barcode:	9781845451103

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