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Is the cemetery dead? / David Charles Sloane.
Fine Arts Library GT3203 .S56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sloane, David Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cemeteries--United States.
- Cemeteries.
- United States.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction: decisions
- Nature
- Natural sanctuary
- Ecological simplicity
- Co-opting nature
- Mourning
- Consolation
- Mourning in public
- Reintroducing the cemetery
- Memorials
- A memory palace
- Commemoration everywhere
- A painter's easel
- Epilogue: the future of death.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226539447
- 022653944X
- OCLC:
- 1001807478
- Publisher Number:
- 40028126637
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