Add to ORKGCemeteries hold a strong relationship to our society and appear to mimic trends overtime; they memorialize not only the dead, but also important, broad social theories. Drawing on the work of Francaviglia (1971) and others, I chose to study these multilateral trends in memorialization. For this, I visited five cemeteries in southwest Virginia. Photographing and analyzing 250 stones, I found and examined their relative and cultural shifts over time and how they related to the different eras that coincided with them. Additionally, I note important developments after 1970, the last period studied by Francoviglia. --Author\u27s abstract. Note: the PDF includes the author\u27s entry submission essay for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Awards
Memorial landscapes are inextricably linked to the processes of national, regional, local, and indiv...
We, humans, mirror our cultural characteristics in death just as we do in life. This study focuses o...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017Burial spaces are among the earliest works of archi...
Though a number of authors have stressed the importance of using cemetery data to study culture chan...
Headstones manifest an abundance of historic information and embody society\u27s cultural and socioe...
We establish our selves through narratives--with others and by ourselves--during life. What happens,...
Grave markers reflect a wealth of information and collectively epitomize society\u27s historic, soci...
The research for this paper has been over forty years in the making as I first read the obituaries o...
Victorian cemeteries are landscapes which can be 'read' both literally and metaphorically. In this p...
In 1851 and 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg, VA, purchased tombstones to...
Cemeteries are microcosms of society bound together in sacred spaces. As manifestations of social mo...
Even the most detailed, disciplined, and rigorous analysis of cemetery data cannot mask the underlyi...
Stemming from a fieldwork project on burial practice and gravestone aesthetics in East Tennessee, th...
When someone dies in modern America, after their body is mourned, buried and time passes, oftentimes...
AbstractWe realized different ways societies express the feeling about death, but always keeping the...
Memorial landscapes are inextricably linked to the processes of national, regional, local, and indiv...
We, humans, mirror our cultural characteristics in death just as we do in life. This study focuses o...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017Burial spaces are among the earliest works of archi...
Though a number of authors have stressed the importance of using cemetery data to study culture chan...
Headstones manifest an abundance of historic information and embody society\u27s cultural and socioe...
We establish our selves through narratives--with others and by ourselves--during life. What happens,...
Grave markers reflect a wealth of information and collectively epitomize society\u27s historic, soci...
The research for this paper has been over forty years in the making as I first read the obituaries o...
Victorian cemeteries are landscapes which can be 'read' both literally and metaphorically. In this p...
In 1851 and 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg, VA, purchased tombstones to...
Cemeteries are microcosms of society bound together in sacred spaces. As manifestations of social mo...
Even the most detailed, disciplined, and rigorous analysis of cemetery data cannot mask the underlyi...
Stemming from a fieldwork project on burial practice and gravestone aesthetics in East Tennessee, th...
When someone dies in modern America, after their body is mourned, buried and time passes, oftentimes...
AbstractWe realized different ways societies express the feeling about death, but always keeping the...
Memorial landscapes are inextricably linked to the processes of national, regional, local, and indiv...
We, humans, mirror our cultural characteristics in death just as we do in life. This study focuses o...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017Burial spaces are among the earliest works of archi...