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Death in America / David E. Stannard.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Mexico.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Contributors: Philippe Ariès, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-5128-1885-2
- OCLC:
- 979751713
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