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Sto caricando le informazioni... The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (2008)di Marilyn Yalom, Reid S. Yalom (Fotografo)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Thorough research of all US graveyards/cemeteries/varying places. Not enough photographs. Full of white racism. ( ) Yalom has given us an interesting look at many different cemeteries across the United States. She begins her tour in Boston and makes her way along selected locations on the east coast such as Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Georgia. She then makes her way to St. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, Texas and eventually to California and Hawaii. Although it fails to be comprehensive, it is representative. She discusses differences based on religion and ethnicity in burial practices as she visits each cemetery and notes the various types of markers. While her focus is on the locations mentioned, she does occasionally mention cemeteries that are similar in other parts of the country. For example, she notes that Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery was based on the garden approach used at Cambridge, Massachusetts' Mount Auburn Cemetery. The author included Hawaii in her treatment, but she failed to include Alaska, which I'm sure would have been another interesting location for treatment. She notes that most slaves were buried in forests and fields without markers or with simple markers such as stones and have been lost over time. She also points out that many of California's early Chinese persons were only temporarily buried in the United States, having been sent back to China for burial after a few years. It's an interesting look at cemeteries and burial practices. Her emphasis on the differences in burial practices based on religion and ethnicity is quite useful. She includes notes for each chapter in the back of the book although they are definitely not comprehensive and are not keyed to specific passages. Her bibliography is probably more useful in the long run than the chapter notes. While there is an index with cemeteries and persons included, it fails to be comprehensive. (Spring Grove Cemetery is omitted.) The book is prefaced with a section of black and white photographs. While there are omissions, the book is still deserving of reading. I bought this book because, well, I have to buy all books about cemeteries. It didn't look that great, though, until I started reading. It's fascinating. She starts out with the history of cemeteries in the New England colonies. I'm sure I learned in school but was not paying attention and somehow missed that Rhode Island was founded as a place of religious tolerance. This meant that were early cemeteries there for Quakers, Jews, etc. In later chapters she and her son travel all over the country visiting cemeteries and describing their unique features and local history. For example, Hawaii has cemeteries for Catholics, Buddhists, Congregationalists, and ancient burial grounds, reflecting the many peoples who make up that state. There have been controversies when resort owners have tried to build on areas considered sacred by native people. All of this is interesting, and my only criticism is that I wish there were more pictures. I have to admit, that because I love old cemeteries, I was predisposed to love this book and forgive its faults. So it won't surprise you to find out that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved how she followed American settlement patterns to show us cemeteries, and thereby, the history of the US. You learn about American history as well as trends in burials and cemetery design. You learn about the haves and the have-nots, as well as different cultures. I know that things I learned from this book will increase my enjoyment of visiting cemeteries. And for that I am so grateful! The photographs are stunning, too. Almost worth the price of the book. If you are cemetery geek, I am pretty sure you will love this book, too. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practicesâ??featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America's cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom's incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today's Native American cultures, and a "lost" Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago's Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling futureâ??DVDs embedded in tombstones, "green" burials, and "the new aesthetic of death"â??The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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