Date of Award
2009
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Anthropology Dept.
Advisor(s)
(unknown)
Abstract
In the work that follows, I begin by establishing transnational networks and global communities as an important site for ethnographic inquiry. I address the ways in which the climbing community both represents and challenges current understandings and analyses of transnational communities. I draw attention to the way that the global climbing community and my position in relation to it allows me to illuminate the climbing community on individual, institutional, national, and international levels. I argue that this multi-scalar perspective is essential in order to grasp how people experience and act within global networks.
Keywords
mountain, climbing, transnational networks, global communities
Recommended Citation
Green, Eitan, "Re-Imagined Communities: Global Climbing on Local Mountains" (2009). Honors Theses. Paper 467.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/467
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