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 83
There yet remains to be written a truly comprehensive history of logging and loggers in the United States . The most useful treatment to date is actually based upon Canadian materials : see Donald MacKay , The Lumberjacks ( Toronto ...
There yet remains to be written a truly comprehensive history of logging and loggers in the United States . The most useful treatment to date is actually based upon Canadian materials : see Donald MacKay , The Lumberjacks ( Toronto ...
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Although much European fieldwork remains to be done , the initial results are encouraging and seem to clearly suggest that Europe is a significant source area for the diffusion of cemetery traits characteristic of the ...
Although much European fieldwork remains to be done , the initial results are encouraging and seem to clearly suggest that Europe is a significant source area for the diffusion of cemetery traits characteristic of the ...
Page 142
... the remains of the deceased were pushed to the back of the vault or removed and placed in a small receptacle within the tomb . Wooden coffin remains were usually burned . a As noted above , there were two basic variations of 142 New ...
... the remains of the deceased were pushed to the back of the vault or removed and placed in a small receptacle within the tomb . Wooden coffin remains were usually burned . a As noted above , there were two basic variations of 142 New ...
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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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