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SCRATCH ATLASES
of the Society for the North American Cultural Survey

1974 (Volume 1)
1977 (Volume 2)

These Scratch Atlases were working documents for a proposed Altas of North American Cultures. A loose-leaf collection of xerox copies of almost 2,200 maps from books, articles, and manuscript files, they represent a survey of the scholarly literature on cultural geography circa 1977. These atlases were individually copied and distributed to interested geographers for their personal use. The atlases were never meant to be published, cited, or deposited in libraries or bookstores.

The project was instigated by W. E. H. Nicholiason and Wilbur Zelinsky at Penn State in April, 1974. Milton B. Newton, Jr. was the general editor of Volume 1, with Richard Pillsbury, John Rooney, George Carney, Dean Louder, and Bruce Buckley (assistance from Karen Stutes). Volume 2 was edited by George Carney, with John Rooney and M. B. Newton, Jr. (assistance from Virawan Sombutsiri and Jon Craig).

The fruits of the Survey were eventually published as This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Cultures, John Rooney, Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean Louder, general editors (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982).

Opening Matter
   Introduction to Volume 1
   Introduction to Volume 2

Food and Drink
   1.12: Food and drink, their prohibition, and such
   2.01: Foodways

Music and Broadcasting
   1.22: Music, songs, singers, instruments
   1.23: Pop-culture; ethnic use of, or reaction to, modernism
   2.02: Music and dance

The Built Environment
   1.06: Architecture: houses, barns, churches, club houses, and such
   1.07: Structures other than architecture: fences, wells, and such
   2.03: Structures

Religion
   1.17: Religion, cult, myth
   2.04: Religion

Race and Ethnicity
   1.01: Culture areas, sub-culture areas, ethnic regions
   1.02: Cultural aspects of population; percentages, frequencies, and such
   2.05: Ethnicity

Immigration, Emigration, Settlement and Surveying
   1.03: Settlement patterns, regional and rural
   1.04: Settlement patterns, urban
   1.05: Routes: trade, transport, roads, railroads, and such
   1.10: Survey systems, especially those of ethnic identity
   2.06: Settlement patterns

Crime, Disease, and other Social Ills
   1.08: Cemeteries
   1.24: Crime, violence, disorder, as showing ethnicity
   2.07: Social Organization and Behavior

Vernacular Crafts, Industries, and Folktales
   1.09: Artifacts
   1.14: Folk and vernacular industries and crafts
   1.19: Tales, legends, riddles, graffiti
   2.08: Handicrafts and Folktales

Politics and Voting
   1.25: Politics, opinion surveys, voting, as showing ethnicity
   2.09: Politics

Agriculture, Livestock, and Farmers Markets
   1.11: Tillage and land management
   1.13: Animals and plants
   1.15: Markets, fairs
   2.10: Man and the Land

Sports and Recreation
   1.16: Festivals, ceremonies, holidays
   1.18: Sports, recreation, ludics
   2.11: Sports, games, and recreation

Language Distribution and Place-Names
   1.20: Language
   1.21: Toponymy
   2.12: Language

References
   References for Volume 1
   References for Volume 2




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