CiNii 図書 - Tarzan was an eco-tourist-- : and other tales in the anthropology of adventure

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.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction Robert J. Gordon PART I: THE ADVENTUROUS WORLDS OF SIMMEL AND TARZAN Chapter 2. Simmel and Frazer: The Adventure and the Adventurer Aram A. Yengoyan Chapter 3. Adventure in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality: Simmel, Tarzan, and Beyond Daniel Bradburd Chapter 4. Tarzan and the Lost Races: Anthropology and Early Science Fiction Alan Barnard Chapter 5. Avant-garde or Savant-garde: The Eco-Tourist as Tarzan A. David Napier PART II: EXHIBITIONARY ADVENTURES Chapter 6. They Sold Adventure: Martin and Osa Johnson in the New Hebrides Lamont Lindstrom Chapter 7. Jacare: Cold War Warrior from the Jungles of the Amazon Neil L. Whitehead Chapter 8. The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures Luis A. Vivanco PART III: HIGH ADVENTURES Chapter 9. Five Miles Out: Communion and Commodification among the Mountaineers David L.R. Houston Chapter 10. Crampons and Cook Pots: The Democratization and Feminizations of Adventure on Aconcagua Joy Logan Chapter 11. The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love: The Peace Corps as Adventure Michael J. Sheridan and Jason J. Price Chapter 12. Doing Africa: Travelers, Adventurers, and American Conquest of Africa Kathryn Mathers and Laura Hubbard PART IV: CROSS-CULTURAL ADVENTURES Chapter 13. "Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!": Peacekeeping as Adventure in Namibia Robert J. Gordon Chapter 14. A Head for Adventure Steven Rubenstein PART V: BRINGING ADVENTURE HOME Chapter 15. Riding Herd on the New World Order: Spectacular Adventuring and U.S. Imperialism Keally McBride Chapter 16. Adventure and Regulation in Contemporary Anthropological Fieldwork David Stoll Bibliography Index

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