The Vital Dead : Making Meaning, Identity, and Community through Cemeteries /

"This book builds on recent anthropological work to explore the social and cultural dynamics of cemetery practice and its transformation over generations in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Anthropologist Alison Bell finds that people are using material culture-images and epitaphs on grave ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Alison (Alison, Kay) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sepulchral monuments.
Manners and customs.
Sepulchral monuments > Shenandoah River Valley Region (Va. and W. Va.)
Cemeteries > Social aspects > Shenandoah River Valley Region (Va. and W. Va.)
United States > Shenandoah River Valley.
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"This book builds on recent anthropological work to explore the social and cultural dynamics of cemetery practice and its transformation over generations in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Anthropologist Alison Bell finds that people are using material culture-images and epitaphs on grave markers, as well as objects they leave on graves-to assert and maintain relationships and fight against alienation. She draws on fieldwork, interviews, archival sources, and disciplinary insights to show how cemeteries both reveal and participate in the grassroots cultural work of crafting social connections, assessing the transcendental durability of the deceased person, and asserting particular cultural values. The book's chapters range across cemetery types, focusing on African American burials, grave sites of institutionalized individuals, and modern community memorials"--
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:9781621906971

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