Death in America /

Contributors: Philippe Ariès, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stannard, David E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edition:Reprint 2016.
Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States.
Death.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Mexico.
Death
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > États-Unis.
Mort.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Mexique.
deaths.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mexico
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Death and the Interpretation of Culture: A Bibliographic Overview
  • Death and the Puritan Child
  • Death in the Popular Mind of Pre-Civil War America
  • Heaven Our Home: Consolation Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880
  • The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the "Rural Cemetery" Movement
  • Death in Mexican Folk Culture
  • Gates Ajar: Death in Mormon Thought and Practice
  • The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies
  • Contributors

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