| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Methods/Theory

Cecelia Tichi. Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 303. $39.95.

Cecelia Tichi's accomplished interdisciplinary study examines the way in which the human body becomes implicated in American geographical experience at a variety of different levels: as embedded representation; as organizing metaphor, often lurking beneath the surface of representation; and as a theoretical construct receiving conscious treatment. It ranges chronologically from the first flickerings of the national parks movement in the 1830s to recent debates on pollution and social segregation; its sources include topographical pamphlets, medical treatises, educational materials, and environmental tracts as well as autobiographies, novels, poems, paintings, photographs, music, and media appearances. Successive chapters deal with Mount Rushmore (white male monumentality and the sublime); Walden Pond ("earth's eye," the icon of counter-cultural America); Yellowstone (at once "nature's heart" and, in the clockwork pulsations of "Old Faithful," a simulacrum of industrial America); "America's Moon" (the technological imperialism of the lunar landings); the Arkansas Hot Springs and the management and containment of the feminine flow of waters; and, finally, Love Canal, a famous pollution hotspot in upstate New York, read as complicating ecofeminist figurations of the maternal ocean. . . .

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