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: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
1992.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430334706719 |
| 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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| Item Description: | Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283311304 9786613311306 9780874213232 9780585039312 |
