The Everest Effect - Nature, Culture, Ideology

Traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day, and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies at this site of environmental extremity, Elizabeth Mazzolini shows both how nature is shaped by cultural values and how extreme natural phenomena shape culture.

About the author

Elizabeth Mazzolini is an assistant professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Summary

The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Mazzolini
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780817318932
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1893-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries