Aconcagua : the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak / / Joy Logan
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| Autore: |
Logan Joy
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| Titolo: |
Aconcagua : the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak / / Joy Logan
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| Pubblicazione: | Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 796.52209826/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mountaineering - Argentina - Aconcagua, Mount |
| Soggetto geografico: | Aconcagua, Mount (Argentina) Description and travel |
| Aconcagua, Mount (Argentina) Discovery and exploration | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Aconcagua |
| ISBN: | 1-299-19177-0 |
| 0-8165-0231-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822826603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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