An edition of Aconcagua (2011)

Aconcagua

the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak

Aconcagua
Joy Logan, Joy Logan
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An edition of Aconcagua (2011)

Aconcagua

the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak

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English
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251

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Aconcagua: the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak
2011, University of Arizona Press
in English
Cover of: Aconcagua
Aconcagua: The Invention of Mountaineering on America's Highest Peak
2011, University of Arizona Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Recuperating bodies, recovering texts
"They all want to be Indiana Jones": travel literature and modernity
No longer the lettered city: San Martín and the touristic imagination
Indigenous identities: the mummy, the mountaineer, and re-ethnification
Fashioning adventure: creating mountaineering in the 1980s
Local heroics: militarisms and democratizations
Matters of life and death: mountain guides, nation, and memorialization
The dream weaver: performing gender, adventure, and mountaineering
Plaza de Mulas: memory, musealization, and the global
Conclusion: Final debriefs.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Tucson

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.52209826/4
Library of Congress
GV199.44.A72 A2647 2011, GV199.44.A72A2647

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Pagination
x, 251 p. :
Number of pages
251

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25170268M
ISBN 10
0816529507
ISBN 13
9780816529506
LCCN
2011025184
OCLC/WorldCat
713192626

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Work ID
OL16461608W

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