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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779153303321

Autore

Logan Joy

Titolo

Aconcagua [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak / / Joy Logan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2011

ISBN

1-299-19177-0

0-8165-0231-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

796.52209826/4

Soggetti

Mountaineering - Argentina - Aconcagua, Mount

Aconcagua, Mount (Argentina) Description and travel

Aconcagua, Mount (Argentina) Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1980's -- 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.