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Title: Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture by Richard E. Meyer ISBN: 0-87421-160-3 Publisher: Utah State University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Summary: Cemeteries Reveal Stories About our Cultural Heritage
Comment: Cemeteries and Gravemarkers is the leading book on interpreting culture from cemeteries. The edited volume includes research by geographers, art historians, historians, folklorists, and anthropologists on various aspects of cemeteries and their gravestones in the United States. The volume encompasses the diversity of approaches to cemetery research from various disciplines, focusing on the cultural information to be obtained. The book is quite readable for the interested member of the public, but also suitable as a text for a university or college course and is a principal scholarly reference for researchers. The book is divided into four sections, including "Icon and Epitaph," "Origins and Influences," "Ethnicity and Regionalism," and "Business and Pleasure." In the first section we learn of the meaning of the icons or motifs on the gravestones of children, loggers in the Northwest, and other insightful discussions of imagery. For example, while it is common knowledge that lambs are a typical motif used for children's gravestones, an article by Ellen Synder provides an in-depth discussion with excellent illustrations of various images used in childrens' gravestones. In the second section, "Origins and Influences," we learn of the unusual folk traditions of cemeteries in the South by Gregory Jeane, as well as the splendid monuments in New Orleans cemeteries, in an informative article by Peggy McDowell. Perhaps the most important part of the book for anthropologists is section three, "Ethnicity and Regionalism." Here we have four articles that provide information on the diversity of cemeteries used by enslaved Africans, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Anglo-Americans. These articles provide a solid basis for interpretations of culture from cemeteries. In the last part of the book, "Business and Pleasure," we are treated to an excellent summary of the growth of the "rural or garden cemetery movement" in the nineteenth century, with its elaborate gravestones and picturesque cemeteries. The editor, Richard Meyer, is to be commended for compiling such as diverse group of scholars for a conference that resulted in the present book. The book is well referenced, with excellent illustrations, and many insights to be found.
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Title: Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity by Douglas Keister, Xavier Cronin ISBN: 0816036497 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland by John Gary Brown ISBN: 0700606343 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Your Guide to Cemetery Research by Sharon Debartolo Carmack ISBN: 1558705899 Publisher: Betterway Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial by Penny Colman ISBN: 0805050663 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister ISBN: 158685321X Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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