Titre et auteur:

Cemeteries and gravemarkers : voices of American culture / edited by Richard E. Meyer ; with a foreword by James Deetz.

Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1992.

Description:

xiv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, ©1989.
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index.
Introduction : "so witty as to speak" / Richard E. Meyer -- Innocents in a worldly world : Victorian children's gravemarkers / Ellen Marie Snyder -- The Bigham carvers of the Carolina Piedmont : stone images of an emerging sense of American identity / Edward W. Clark -- Images of logging on contemporary Pacific Northwest gravemarkers / Richard E. Meyer -- The epitaph and personality revolution / J. Joseph Edgette -- The Upland South folk cemetery complex : some suggestions of origin / D. Gregory Jeane -- J.N.B. de Pouilly and French sources of revival style design in New Orleans cemetery architecture / Peggy McDowell -- The Afro-American section of Newport, Rhode Island's common burying ground / Ann and Dickran Tashjian -- Navajo, Mormon, Zuni graves : Navajo, Mormon, Zuni ways / Keith Cunningham -- San Fernando cemetery : decorations of love and loss in a Mexican-American community / Lynn Gosnell and Suzanne Gott.
Western Pennsylvania cemeteries in transition : a model for subregional analysis / Thomas J. Hannon -- Monumental bronze : a representative American company / Barbara Rotundo -- Strange but genteel pleasure grounds : tourist and leisure uses of nineteenth-century rural cemeteries / Blanche Linden-Ward.

ISBN:

0874211603 (pbk.)
9780874211603 (pbk.)
9780874213232

Sujet:

Sepulchral monuments United States.
Cemeteries United States.
Epitaphs United States.
Cimetières États-Unis.
Épitaphes États-Unis.
Cemeteries.
Epitaphs.
Manners and customs.
Sepulchral monuments.
Cemiterios.
Historia dos estados unidos.
United States Social life and customs.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.

Vedettes secondaires:

Meyer, Richard E., 1939-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 90818
Cote: ID GT3203.C46; ID:93-B304
Statut: Disponible