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Cemeteries and gravemarkers
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ISBN: 1283311305 9786613311306 0874213231 0585039313 0874211603 9780874213232 9780585039312 9781283311304 9780874211603 6613311308 Year: 1992 Publisher: Logan, Utah Utah State University Press

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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.

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