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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Yalom, Marilyn.
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Cemeteries -- United States.
Cemeteries -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Sepulchral monuments -- United States.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States.
United States -- History, Local.
United States -- History, Local -- Pictorial works.
United States -- Social life and customs.
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The American resting...
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The American resting place / Marilyn Yalom ; photographs by Reid Yalom.
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Yalom, Marilyn.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Subjects
Cemeteries -- United States.
Cemeteries -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Sepulchral monuments -- United States.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States.
United States -- History, Local.
United States -- History, Local -- Pictorial works.
United States -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780618624270 :
0618624279
Description:
xv, 336 p., [64] of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Claiming 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.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
929.50973 Ya
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Hilo Public Library
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929.50973 Yalom
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Mililani Public Library
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929.50973 Ya
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