Death in America

Author(s)

• Ariès, Philippe
• Stannard, David E.

Bibliographic Information

Death in America

Philippe Ariès ... [et al.] ; edited, with an introduction, by David E. Stannard

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975, c1974

• : pbk

Note

"Substantial portions of this book were originally published in the American quarterly."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• Death and the interpretation of culture : a bibliographic overview / Jack Goody
• Death and the Puritan child / David E. Stannard
• Death in the popular mind of pre-Civil War America / Lewis O. Saum
• Heaven our home : consolation literature in the northern United States, 1830-1880 / Ann Douglas
• The cemetery as cultural institution : the establishment of Mount Auburn and the "Rural Cementery" Movement / Stanley French
• Death in Mexican folk culture / Patricia Fernández Kelly
• Gates ajar : death in Mormon thought and practice / Mary Ann Meyers
• The reversal of death : changes in attitudes toward death / Philippe Ariès

• NCID: BA19517016
• ISBN:
  • 0812276957
• LCCN: 75010124
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 158 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GT3203
  • DC : 301.2/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
  • LCSH : Death
  • LCSH : Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Mexico