| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : "so witty as to speak" / Richard E. Meyer -- Innocents in a worldly world : Victorian children's gravemarkers / Ellen Marie Snyder -- Bigham carvers of the Carolina Piedmont : stone images of an emerging sense of American identity / Edward W. Clark -- Images of logging on contemporary Pacific Northwest gravemarkers / Richard E. Meyer -- Epitaph and personality revolution / J. Joseph Edgette -- Upland South folk cemetery complex : some suggestions of origin / D. Gregory Jeane -- J.N.B. de Pouilly and French sources of revival style design in New Orleans cemetery architecture / Peggy McDowell -- Afro-American section of Newport, Rhode Island's common burying ground / Ann and Dickran Tashjian -- Navajo, Mormon, Zuni graves : Navajo, Mormon, Zuni ways / Keith Cunningham -- San Fernando cemetery : decorations of love and loss in a Mexican-American community / Lynn Gosnell and Suzanne Gott -- Western Pennsylvania cemeteries in transition : a model for subregional analysis / Thomas J. Hannon -- Monumental bronze : a representative American company / Barbara Rotundo -- Strange but genteel pleasure grounds : tourist and leisure uses of nineteenth-century rural cemeteries / Blanche Linden-Ward. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Sepulchral monuments -- United States.
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Sepulchral monuments. |
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United States. |
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Cemeteries -- United States.
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Cemeteries. |
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Epitaphs -- United States.
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Epitaphs. |
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Meyer, Richard E., 1939-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cemeteries and gravemarkers. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1992 0874211603 (DLC) 92031114 (OCoLC)26635921 |
| ISBN |
9780874213232 (electronic book) |
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0874213231 (electronic book) |
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0585039313 (electronic book) |
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9780585039312 (electronic book) |
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1283311305 |
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9781283311304 |
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9780874211603 |
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0874211603 |
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9786613311306 |
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6613311308 |
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