Cemeteries GravemarkersRichard Meyer Utah State University Press, 1992 - 347 pages 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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... land and the promise of a spiritual harbor in heaven . The Bighams carved particular designs on the gravestones cut for their Carolina neighbors as a visual means by which they could remember or imagine a distant past in a distant land ...
... land and the promise of a spiritual harbor in heaven . The Bighams carved particular designs on the gravestones cut for their Carolina neighbors as a visual means by which they could remember or imagine a distant past in a distant land ...
Page 237
... land- scape . The long - term perception that the cemetery is sacred or semi- sacred land has meant , in general , that it has avoided the disturbances which have so dramatically altered the landscape of the living . The cemetery and ...
... land- scape . The long - term perception that the cemetery is sacred or semi- sacred land has meant , in general , that it has avoided the disturbances which have so dramatically altered the landscape of the living . The cemetery and ...
Page 245
... land turned over to strip mining or to some other endeavor in the sequence of occupancy , and the remaining cemetery , in overgrown condition , stands as mute evidence of what used to be . Churches and adjacent cemeteries appeared in ...
... land turned over to strip mining or to some other endeavor in the sequence of occupancy , and the remaining cemetery , in overgrown condition , stands as mute evidence of what used to be . Churches and adjacent cemeteries appeared in ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
Copyright | |
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