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Cemeteries and gravemarkers : voices of American culture /
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 grou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874213232 0874213231 0585039313 9780585039312 9786613311306 6613311308 |