Cemeteries and gravemarkers : : voices of American culture / / edited by Richard E. Meyer ; with a foreword by James Deetz.
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 grou...
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Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 1992. ©1992. |
Year of Publication: | 1992 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) :; illustrations |
Notes: | Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989. |
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