Ethnicity And The American Cemetery
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. \ Contributors examine the material objects found within the cemeteries, as well as the customary practices bound to them. Contributors are from the...
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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. BooknewsEight 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)
AcknowledgmentsStrangers in a Strange Land: Ethnic Cemeteries in America1Windows in the Garden: Italian-American Memorialization and the American Cemetery14Keeping Ukraine Alive through Death: Ukrainian-American Gravestones as Cultural Markers36Czech Cemeteries in Nebraska from 1868: Cultural Imprints on the Prairie77Scottish, Irish and Rom Gypsy Funeral Customs and Gravestones in Cincinnati104American Jewish Cemeteries: A Mirror of History131The Agua Mansa Cemetery: An Indicator of Ethnic Identification in a Mexican-American Community156The People of Rimrock Bury Alfred K. Lorenzo: Tri-Cultural Funerary Practice173Oriental and Polynesian Cemetery Traditions in the Hawaiian Islands193The Literature of Necroethnicity in America: An Annotated Bibliography222Contributors238
\ BooknewsEight 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)\ \
