| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People. By Keith L. Bryant, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. 379 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Keith L. Bryant, Jr. specialized in American railroad and business history through the 1980s, before turning his attention to cultural and urban history. Culture in the American Southwest is the product of his research in the 1990s. The subtitle exposes the author's fascination with "topophilia," a concept advanced by geographer Yi-Fu Tuan to underscore the influence of environment on the development of culture. 1

Bryant argues that "[c]oncepts of place and space permeate the societies of Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos in the Southwest. . . . Site transforms humankind just as humans alter the landscape. The culture of the Southwest is the intersection of 'spirit,' 'place,' and 'vision'" (p. 4). The book shows evidence of these cultural connections among people and with the land, but it does not explain the significance of these relations. It draws attention to modern cities in the New Southwest, and the emergence of Anglo American cultural institutions supporting southwestern art and art museums, distinctive architectural styles, regional literature, music, and opera. . . .

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