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
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.
