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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Page 108
Field investigation of rural Southern cemeteries tends to confirm Newton's areal definition of the Upland South.2 The Upland South folk cemetery is a distinctive type of burial ground widely dispersed across the rural South ( fig .
Field investigation of rural Southern cemeteries tends to confirm Newton's areal definition of the Upland South.2 The Upland South folk cemetery is a distinctive type of burial ground widely dispersed across the rural South ( fig .
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Similar in some , though not all ways , is the perpetual care form of the folk cemetery , which is characterized by the disappearance of coping or balks surrounding family plots , the carpeting of all burial space with grass ...
Similar in some , though not all ways , is the perpetual care form of the folk cemetery , which is characterized by the disappearance of coping or balks surrounding family plots , the carpeting of all burial space with grass ...
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The intent here has been to place the Upland South folk cemetery within a local , regional , and national context ( in the manner recommended by Wilbur Zelinsky as critical to building the base from which methodical analyses of cemetery ...
The intent here has been to place the Upland South folk cemetery within a local , regional , and national context ( in the manner recommended by Wilbur Zelinsky as critical to building the base from which methodical analyses of cemetery ...
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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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