The American Resting Place
by Marilyn Yalom
2020-12-29 07:27:40
The American Resting Place
by Marilyn Yalom
2020-12-29 07:27:40
An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practicesâfeaturing eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalo...
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An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practicesâfeaturing 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 Americaâs cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalomâs 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 todayâs Native American cultures, and a âlostâ Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicagoâs Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling futureâDVDs embedded in tombstones, âgreenâ burials, and âthe new aesthetic of deathââThe American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
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