Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

“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