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Ethnicity And The American Cemetery »

Authors: Richard Meyer
ISBN-13: 9780879726003, ISBN-10: 0879726008
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Richard Meyer

Book Synopsis

Cemeteries are open cultural texts, available to be read and appreciated by anyone who takes the time to learn their special language. Ethnicity and the American Cemetery explores the manner in which ethnic groups in America have made their cemeteries a most eloquent voice for the expression of values and worldviews.

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Eight original, commissioned essays explore how various American ethnic groups have made their cemeteries into powerful expressions of their values and world views, through siting, material objects, and funeral practices. Among the groups explored are Ukrainians, Scottish, Mexican and Native American, and Jewish. Well illustrated. No index. Paper edition (601-6), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Strangers in a Strange Land: Ethnic Cemeteries in America	1
	Windows in the Garden: Italian-American Memorialization and the American Cemetery	14
	Keeping Ukraine Alive through Death: Ukrainian-American Gravestones as Cultural Markers	36
	Czech Cemeteries in Nebraska from 1868: Cultural Imprints on the Prairie	77
	Scottish, Irish and Rom Gypsy Funeral Customs and Gravestones in Cincinnati	104
	American Jewish Cemeteries: A Mirror of History	131
	The Agua Mansa Cemetery: An Indicator of Ethnic Identification in a Mexican-American Community	156
	The People of Rimrock Bury Alfred K. Lorenzo: Tri-Cultural Funerary Practice	173
	Oriental and Polynesian Cemetery Traditions in the Hawaiian Islands	193
	The Literature of Necroethnicity in America: An Annotated Bibliography	222
	Contributors	238

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