Aconcagua the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak / Joy Logan.

Author/creator Logan, Joy
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press,
Descriptionx, 251 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011025184
ISBN9780816529506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816529507 (pbk. : alk. paper)