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050 00 $aE169.1$b.T543 2001
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100 1 $aTichi, Cecelia,$d1942-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78044286
245 10 $aEmbodiment of a nation :$bhuman form in American places /$cCecelia Tichi.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2001.
300 $axii, 303 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-296) and index.
520 1 $a"From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's vision of Cape Cod as the "bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the historically varied and often contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.
520 8 $aEnvironmental history as cultural studies, her book plumbs the deep and peculiarly American bond between nationalism, the environment, and the human body.".
520 8 $a"Tichi disputes the United States' reputation of being "nature's nation." U.S. citizens have effectively screened out nature by projecting the bodies of U.S. citizens upon nature. She pursues this idea by pairing Mt.
520 8 $aRushmore with Walden Pond as competing efforts to locate the head of the American body in nature; Yellowstone's Old Faithful with the Moon as complementary embodiments of the American frontier; and Hot Springs, Arkansas, with Love Canal as contrasting sites of the identification of women and water. A major contribution to current discussions of gender and nature, her book also demonstrates the intellectual power of wedding environmental studies to the social history of the human body."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Local.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140336
651 0 $aUnited States$xEnvironmental conditions.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089950
650 0 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009103100
650 0 $aAnthropomorphism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005591
650 0 $aLandscapes$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aLandscapes$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aHistoric sites$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008006782
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