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The American resting place /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yalom, Marilyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
Subjects:
Cemeteries > United States.
Cemeteries > United States > Pictorial works.
United States > History, Local.
United States > History, Local > Pictorial works.
Sepulchral monuments > United States.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
Table of 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.