Aconcagua the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak / Joy Logan.
| Author/creator | Logan, Joy |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tucson : University of Arizona Press, |
| Description | x, 251 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011025184 |
| ISBN | 9780816529506 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816529507 (pbk. : alk. paper) |