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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3 Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest Gravemarkers Richard E. Meyer It is a commonly held belief , even amongst ... The general image is that of a bland , featureless conglomeration of flat markers set into a nondescript ...
3 Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest Gravemarkers Richard E. Meyer It is a commonly held belief , even amongst ... The general image is that of a bland , featureless conglomeration of flat markers set into a nondescript ...
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... it conjures up vivid images of the deceased person's life.3 Again , technological advancements in the industry seem to have achieved a high degree of coincidence with new interest in and attitudes toward commemoration of the dead .
... it conjures up vivid images of the deceased person's life.3 Again , technological advancements in the industry seem to have achieved a high degree of coincidence with new interest in and attitudes toward commemoration of the dead .
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7.6 ) displays another early image derived from the seventeenth century , that of an hourglass , crudely incised ... In the eighteenth century , stonecarvers gradually shifted their use of images from winged skulls to angels and cherubs ...
7.6 ) displays another early image derived from the seventeenth century , that of an hourglass , crudely incised ... In the eighteenth century , stonecarvers gradually shifted their use of images from winged skulls to angels and cherubs ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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