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Cemeteries and gravemarkers : voices of American culture / edited by Richard E. Meyer ; with a foreword by James Deetz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, Richard, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sepulchral monuments--United States.
- Sepulchral monuments.
- Cemeteries--United States.
- Cemeteries.
- Epitaphs--United States.
- Epitaphs.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1992.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword - James Deetz; Acknowledgements; Introduction: ""So Witty as to Speak"" - Richard E. Meyer; Icon and Epitaph; Origins and Influences; Ethicity and Regionalism; Business and Pleasure; Bibliography - Richard E. Meyer; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613311306
- 9781283311304
- 1283311305
- 9780874213232
- 0874213231
- 9780585039312
- 0585039313
- OCLC:
- 815795138
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