Cemeteries GravemarkersCemeteries 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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Sephulchral monuments — United States . 2. Cemeteries — United States . 3. Epitaphs— United States . 4. United States Social life and customs . I. Meyer , Richard E. , 1939GT 3203.C46 1992 393'.1'0973 — dc20 92-31114 CIP 28182 In Memory ...
Sephulchral monuments — United States . 2. Cemeteries — United States . 3. Epitaphs— United States . 4. United States Social life and customs . I. Meyer , Richard E. , 1939GT 3203.C46 1992 393'.1'0973 — dc20 92-31114 CIP 28182 In Memory ...
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See Henry Glassie , Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1968 ) , p . 39. For the opposing approach see Newton , “ Cultural Preadaptation , ” p . 149 . 3.
See Henry Glassie , Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1968 ) , p . 39. For the opposing approach see Newton , “ Cultural Preadaptation , ” p . 149 . 3.
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The precedent for this was established in 1932 , when a committee of the American Council of Learned Societies made an attempt to reconstruct the ethnic character of the United States as it was in 1790 by analyzing surnames from the ...
The precedent for this was established in 1932 , when a committee of the American Council of Learned Societies made an attempt to reconstruct the ethnic character of the United States as it was in 1790 by analyzing surnames from the ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Pealkiri | Cemeteries Gravemarkers |
| Editor | Richard Meyer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 mär. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0874211603, 9780874211603 |
| Length | 347 pages |
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