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. Jacaré: 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
Luis Vivanco is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. 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).
“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 ethnographic understandings with Simmel’s work. This book is a useful addition to the anthropological literature on travel and tourism, and it is a pleasurable adventure to read.” · American Anthropologist
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