| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

The Robertsons, The Sutherlands, and the Making of Texas. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. By Anne H. Sutherland. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xv + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95).

How did Texans, always a people of wide human variety, project such a one-dimensional identity, not only as a reflection of their self-perception, but also in the prevailing view of outsiders? According to social anthropologist Anne Sutherland, the answer lies in a willfully constructed origin myth. The vehicle, "an ethnographic account" based on her family's memoirs, promises to assess the "formation of culture over time rather than at the combination of events and biography of standard histories" (p. 21). Yet, apparently, she avoids that bête noire by deliberately steering clear of interpretive literature that could have enriched her work.

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