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The American resting place
Author
Title
The American resting place / Marilyn Yalom ; photographs by Reid Yalom.
ISBN
9780618624270
0618624279
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Claiming the land
Marking the grave
Solidarity in the cemetery
Distancing the dead
Death's-heads and funeral gloves: Boston, Massachusetts
"Gone are the living, but the dead remains": Newport, Rhode Island
Cemeteries as real estate: New York City
Plain and fancy: Philadelphia and Lancaster County
The southern way of death: South Carolina and Georgia
New Orleans: where it's better to be buried above ground
New Orleans: where it's better to be buried above ground
Rituals of remembrance: St. Louis and the Boonslick
Ethnicity, religion, and class in underground Chicago
Celebrating the dead in Polyglot Texas
California: missionaries, miners, moguls, and movie stars
Who owns the bones? Sites and rites in Hawaii
National military cemeteries
Old and new fashions in death.
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