Cemeteries and gravemarkers voices of American culture
Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Logan, Utah
Utah State University Press
1992, 1992
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 347 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 6613311308 9780874211603 9781283311304 0874211603 1283311305 9786613311306 |