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Title:

Mapping American culture / edited by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

vii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human geography--United States.
United States--Civilization.

Other Authors:

Franklin, Wayne.
Steiner, Michael (Michael C.)

Notes:

Rev. and expanded versions of papers originally presented at a conference at San Luis Obispo on "Place in American culture" in May 1990. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Beyond the sacred and the profane : cultural landscape photography in America, 1930-1990 / Timothy Davis -- The formal garden in the age of consumer culture : a reading of the twentieth-century shopping mall / Richard Keller Simon -- Topographies of power : the forced spaces of the Manhattan Project / Peter Bacon Hales -- Priesthoods and power : some thoughts on Diablo Canyon / Steven Marx.
Taking place : toward the regrounding of American studies / Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner -- Place and culture : analeptic for individuality and the world's indifference / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Place-on-the-move : space and place for the migrant / Clarence Mondale -- "To lose the unspeakable" : folklore and landscape in O.E. Rolvaag's Giants in the earth / April Schulz -- Back home : southern identity and African-American gospel quartet performance / Ray Allen -- Thoreau's Journal : the creation of a sacred place / Don Scheese -- Possessing America : William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the poetics of appropriation / Kinereth Meyer -- "Roots, aren't they supposed to be buried?" : the experience of place in midwestern women's autobiographies / Kathleen R. Wallace.

Series:

The American land & life series

ISBN:

9780877453796
0877453799

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25509116

LCCN:

92010421

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)