Defining the Delta

<div>Inspired by the Arkansas Review's What Is the Delta? series of articles <i>Defining the Delta</i> collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences social sciences and humanities to describe and define this important region.<br> <br> Here are essays examining the Delta's physical properties boundaries and climate from a geologist archeologist and environmental historian. The Delta is also viewed through the lens of the social sciences and humanities-historians folklorists and others studying the connection between the land and its people in particular the importance of agriculture and the culture of the area especially music literature and food.<br> <br> Every turn of the page reveals another way of seeing the seven-state region that is bisected by and dependent on the Mississippi River suggesting ultimately that there are myriad ways of looking at and defining the Delta.</div>