| Description |
1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mountaineering -- Argentina -- Aconcagua, Mount
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HISTORY -- General.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Mountaineering.
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Travel.
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| SUBJECT |
Aconcagua, Mount (Argentina) -- Description and travel
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Aconcagua, Mount (Argentina) -- Discovery and exploration
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| Subject |
Argentina -- Mount Aconcagua.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011025184 |
| ISBN |
9780816502318 |
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0816502315 |
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