Cemeteries Gravemarkers

• Autor principal: Meyer, Richard (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: University Press of Colorado 1989
• Assuntos: Society & culture: general; Folklore, myths & legends; Sociology
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 grou...