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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... seems likely that not one but several factors played a significant role in this transformation . An emerging aes- thetic based upon applied pragmatic ideals seems to have had a lot to do with it initially : as early as 1917 , one ...
... seems likely that not one but several factors played a significant role in this transformation . An emerging aes- thetic based upon applied pragmatic ideals seems to have had a lot to do with it initially : as early as 1917 , one ...
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... seems to have enjoyed traditional status in the woods for some time prior to this , 22 embodying in succinct fashion one of the most fiercely held tenets of logger self - concept and worldview . 23 Upon occasion an inscription may yield ...
... seems to have enjoyed traditional status in the woods for some time prior to this , 22 embodying in succinct fashion one of the most fiercely held tenets of logger self - concept and worldview . 23 Upon occasion an inscription may yield ...
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... seems probable that the evolution of the cemetery and its transi- tional processes in that region are not markedly different from such pro- cesses elsewhere , except perhaps in terms of chronology or highly indi- vidualized regional ...
... seems probable that the evolution of the cemetery and its transi- tional processes in that region are not markedly different from such pro- cesses elsewhere , except perhaps in terms of chronology or highly indi- vidualized regional ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
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