Rev. and expanded versions of papers originally presented at a conference at San Luis Obispo on "Place in American culture" in May 1990. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 -- 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
