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001 964612242
003 OCoLC
005 20151005063219.0
008 080114s2008 mauaf b 001 0 eng
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100 1 $aYalom, Marilyn.
245 14 $aThe American resting place /$cMarilyn Yalom ; photographs by Reid Yalom.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Co.,$c2008.
300 $axv, 336 p., [64] of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aClaiming 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.
650 0 $aCemeteries$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCemeteries$zUnited States$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aSepulchral monuments$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Local.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Local$vPictorial works.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs.
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