Aconcagua
Subtitle: the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak
By: Joy Logan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780816529506
Subjects: Mountaineering; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Recuperating bodies, recovering texts; title: "They all want to be Indiana Jones": travel literature and modernity; title: No longer the lettered city: San Martín and the touristic imagination; title: Indigenous identities: the mummy, the mountaineer, and re-ethnification; title: Fashioning adventure: creating mountaineering in the 1980s; title: Local heroics: militarisms and democratizations; title: Matters of life and death: mountain guides, nation, and memorialization; title: The dream weaver: performing gender, adventure, and mountaineering; title: Plaza de Mulas: memory, musealization, and the global; title: Conclusion: Final debriefs.