03365nam 2200769 a 450 991078500790332120230207213655.00-674-04435-510.1515/9780674044357(CKB)2670000000038298(SSID)ssj0000416687(PQKBManifestationID)12146844(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416687(PQKBWorkID)10436425(PQKB)10571005(SSID)ssj0000484072(PQKBManifestationID)12203082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484072(PQKBWorkID)10573549(PQKB)11201010(MiAaPQ)EBC3300803(Au-PeEL)EBL3300803(CaPaEBR)ebr10400481(OCoLC)923117214(DE-B1597)574619(DE-B1597)9780674044357(OCoLC)1262307871(EXLCZ)99267000000003829820001228d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmbodiment of a nation[electronic resource] human form in American places /Cecelia TichiCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press2001xii, 303 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-00494-9 0-674-01361-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-296) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --I Crania Americana --1 Mt. Rushmore: Heads of State and States of Heads --2 Walden Pond: Head Trips --II Frontier Incarnations --3 Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America --4 America’s Moon: “A Dream of the Future’s Face” --III Bon Aqua --5 Hot Springs: American Hygeia --6 Love Canal: Hygeia’s Crisis --Notes --References --Credits --IndexFrom Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the American environment has been 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.National characteristics, AmericanHuman bodySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryAnthropomorphismLandscapesUnited StatesPsychological aspectsHistoryLandscapesSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryHistoric sitesUnited StatesUnited StatesIntellectual lifeUnited StatesHistory, LocalUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsNational characteristics, American.Human bodySocial aspectsHistory.Anthropomorphism.LandscapesPsychological aspectsHistory.LandscapesSocial aspectsHistory.Historic sites973Tichi Cecelia1942-595969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785007903321Embodiment of a nation991590UNINA