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Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990
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Visitors to Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness Area crawled out of their air-conditioned Chryslers in the administrative parking lot, stretched their legs, loaded their cameras, and browsed through the federally published tourist brochures that their tax dollars had sponsored as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Visitors to Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness Area in 1978 crawled out of their air-conditioned Chryslers in the administrative parking lot, stretched their legs, loaded their cameras, and browsed through the federally published tourist brochures that their tax dollars had sponsored. Curious, bored, travel-weary, or simply scenery numb, tourists' gazing out at the stark desert landscape of Aravaipa Canyon found their wildest western expectations reinforced by the text of the Bureau of Land Management Visitor's Guide to Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness: "Wilderness is the America that was-wild land beyond theread more
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The Land before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860.
Nina Baym,Annette Kolodny +1 more
TL;DR: Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier and finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated as mentioned in this paper.
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The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
A. G. Roeber,Francis Jennings +1 more
TL;DR: This paper recast the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion and examined the relationships between Europeans and Indians from a far more critical point of view, and viewed the Puritan actions in the cold light of material interest and naked expansion.
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See America: WPA Posters and the Mapping of a New Deal Democracy
TL;DR: O'Conner et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the significance of these posters within the broader cultural context of the depression era and argued that the series participated in a larger cultural dialogue surrounding the construction of national identity during the depression.
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TL;DR: Turner's seminal work, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure as discussed by the authors, examines the Ndembu in Zambia and develops the concept of "Communitas", which is an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.
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The Ritual Process — Structure and Anti-Structure
Louis Molet,Victor Turner +1 more
TL;DR: Turner's seminal work The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure as discussed by the authors examines the Ndembu in Zambia and develops the concept of ''Communitas'' to describe an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.
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The image : a guide to pseudo-events in America
TL;DR: Boorstin's Prophetic vision of an America Inundated By Its Own Illusions has become an Essential Resource For Any Reader Who Wants To Distinguish The Manifold Deceptions Of Our Culture From Its Few Enduring Truths as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967 The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books that changed our world," and it has been called the "Book of Genesis for environmentalists" as discussed by the authors.
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From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play
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