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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Page 118
... significant annual event asso- ciated with the cemetery , but gradually this too dwindled , becoming in- creasingly difficult to organize as a community event . The continued de- mise of cemetery cleaning led to individual families ...
... significant annual event asso- ciated with the cemetery , but gradually this too dwindled , becoming in- creasingly difficult to organize as a community event . The continued de- mise of cemetery cleaning led to individual families ...
Page 121
... significant presence of the folk graveyard in Southern re- gions minimally affected by slavery or black culture in general . Neither does an African or Amerindian origin give adequate recognition to the dominance of European culture in ...
... significant presence of the folk graveyard in Southern re- gions minimally affected by slavery or black culture in general . Neither does an African or Amerindian origin give adequate recognition to the dominance of European culture in ...
Page 126
... significant in Germany , although it is common in Catholic Germanic coun- tries . Austria in particular has numerous examples , as do parts of Switzer- land . The house - tomb in the British Isles is of a different type . Although the ...
... significant in Germany , although it is common in Catholic Germanic coun- tries . Austria in particular has numerous examples , as do parts of Switzer- land . The house - tomb in the British Isles is of a different type . Although the ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
Copyright | |
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