ISBN:
0813049717
,
9780813049717
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 254 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
The American experience in archaeological perspective
DDC:
393.10973
Keywords:
Cemeteries History
;
Sepulchral monuments History
;
USA
;
Friedhof
;
Grabmal
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : American cemetery studies as above- and belowground archaeologyBelowground archaeology : ethics and science -- The science in belowground archaeology -- Beyond death's heads and cherubs : early American gravemarkers -- Transformations in the design of nineteenth- and twentieth-century cemeteries -- Ethnicity, race, and class within nineteenth- and twentieth-century cemeteries -- "He being dead yet speaketh" (Hebrews 14:4) : conclusions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and index
,
Text in English
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