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Sto caricando le informazioni... Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (1982)di Terry G. Jordan
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Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)393.1Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Social aspects of Death (Thanatology) Earth burialClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Although an academic book, with seven small-font pages each of endnotes and bibliography, and a three-page index, it is quite readable, as it is only 126 pages and is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photos and drawings, and includes a double-page-spread map of Texas counties. Some color photos, especially in the Mexican graveyard chapter, would have been a nice addition.
The chapter on German graveyards was particularly interesting, especially the sections on internal spatial arrangement (stone and wood grave curbings), metal glass wreath boxes, intricate metalwork crosses, elaborate (often rhyming) epitaphs in German, and the various hex signs and symbols decorating markers: Sonnenrad (sun wheels), Hakenkreuz (swastika, often whirling), Sechsstern (six-pointed stars), Urbogen (arc), Drudenfuss or Hexefiess ("witch's foot"), Pentagramm, and Teutonic concave-pointed turnip-shaped hearts. ( )