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Mazzolini, Elizabeth.

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History of a metaphor: Nationalism, individualism and consumerism on Mount Everest.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	History of a metaphor: Nationalism, individualism and consumerism on Mount Everest./
Author:	Mazzolini, Elizabeth.
Description:	169 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2970.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Language, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3229020
ISBN:	9780542827983

History of a metaphor: Nationalism, individualism and consumerism on Mount Everest.
Mazzolini, Elizabeth.

History of a metaphor: Nationalism, individualism and consumerism on Mount Everest. - 169 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2970.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2006.

The dissertation is a political, discursive and technological history of Mount Everest in the twentieth century. During the period of time in which it has been climbed by Western mountaineers with the goal of reaching the summit, Mount Everest has functioned within different cultural regimes of meaning. "Transformations of a Metaphor" identifies and describes three of these regimes. First, Mount Everest functioned as an object of conquest for nationalist glory, then as an accoutrement of individual identity and finally (and currently) as a trophy of purchasable personal experience. These shifts have been enabled by the technologies deployed in both climbing and in communicating about climbing, including oxygen, food, personal narrative, and visual culture.

ISBN: 9780542827983Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018089
Language, General.

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