Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
Cemeteries & Gravemarkers
Cemeteries & Gravemarkers
ed. Richard Meyer

347 pages

paper $29.95x
Published: 1992

ISBN 978-0-87421-160-3

ebook $20.00
ISBN 978-0-87421-323-2

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Cemeteries & Gravemarkers

Voices of American Culture

ed. Richard Meyer

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 grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large.