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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Keith L. Bryant, Jr. Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People. (Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities, number 12.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2001. Pp. 379. $34.95.

On the final two pages of this book, cultural historian Keith Bryant, Jr., summarizes the results of his previous 300-plus pages this way: "From the arrival of the earliest occupants of the Southwest to the end of the twentieth century, the regional culture has been shaped by the natural environment" (pp. 306–307). That might strike some readers as no great insight, something akin to saying that boat design has been influenced by water. But Bryant's conclusion becomes more profound when you consider the cultural traditions of other American regions. Southern culture seems primarily shaped by history, Midwestern culture by its built and human-altered setting, New England more by the ties linking it to Europe. All these statements (Bryant's included) are guilty of reductionism. But they are also accurate. . . .

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