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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Main Author: Meyer, Richard E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah Utah State University Press 1992, 1992
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