Allison C. Meier

Grave, by Allison C Meier, is another engaging volume in the Object Lessons series, which offers readers insight and nuance into everyday objects (objects defined loosely). This volume gives a nice history as well as a look forward, taking into account the many elements that have gone into American funerary tradition and policy over the years.

Between her experience giving cemetery tours and her research on cemeteries, graves, and burial tradition (and sometimes biased policy), Meier gives a very good, as she states, "exploration of the American grave." From the logistics of how and where we inter our dead to how we decide who can be buried where, I found a lot here to digest.

If you enjoy learning about things beyond a basic surface level, you will enjoy this book, as well as the other books in the series. Highly recommend both this volume and the entire series for those who like nuance and perspectives about objects that they may not have yet considered.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (altro)