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The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
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A sweeping history of America as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, stunningly illustrated with eighty black-and-white photographs.
Cemeteries and burial grounds, as illuminated by acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom, are unique windows onto our religious, ethnic, and deeply human history as Americans. This dedicated mother-son team visited hundreds of cemeteries while developing The American Resting Place, following a coast-to-coast and north-to-south trajectory that mirrors the vast historic pattern of American immigration.
Yalom delivers incisive, often poignant accounts of how gravestone epigraphs reveal changing ideas about death and personal identity; who is buried next to whom and why; when and why cemeteries are moved; and how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include:
- the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime
- burial rites and unique funerary symbols in today's Indian cultures
- a Czech community brought uncannily to life in the crematorium of Chicago's National Bohemian Cemetery
From fascinating past to startling future--DVDs embedded in tombstones, green burials, and "the new aesthetic of death"--The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
Cemeteries and burial grounds, as illuminated by acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom, are unique windows onto our religious, ethnic, and deeply human history as Americans. This dedicated mother-son team visited hundreds of cemeteries while developing The American Resting Place, following a coast-to-coast and north-to-south trajectory that mirrors the vast historic pattern of American immigration.
Yalom delivers incisive, often poignant accounts of how gravestone epigraphs reveal changing ideas about death and personal identity; who is buried next to whom and why; when and why cemeteries are moved; and how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include:
- the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime
- burial rites and unique funerary symbols in today's Indian cultures
- a Czech community brought uncannily to life in the crematorium of Chicago's National Bohemian Cemetery
From fascinating past to startling future--DVDs embedded in tombstones, green burials, and "the new aesthetic of death"--The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
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