I asked a month or so ago for suggestions of books and articles
on burial practices.  I guess it's time I provided the results
to the list.  Thanks to all who responded to my request.  I was unable
to respond to each individually.
 
 
 
                         Bibliographies
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o Bell, Edward. VESTIGES OF MORTALITY AND REMEMBRANCE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF CEMETERIES
 
 
                             Books
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o Aries, Phillipe. WESTERN ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEATH FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE
PRESENT (1974)
o Benes, Peter. MASKS OF ORTHODOXY 1689-1805 (1977)
o Benes, Peter. DUBLIN SEMINAR FOR NEW ENGLAND FOLKLIFE: PURITAN GRAVESTONE ART
(1976)
o Benes, Peter. DUBLIN SEMINAR FOR NEW ENGLAND FOLKLIFE: PURITAN GRAVESTONE ART
II (1976)
o Bowman, LeRoy Edward. THE AMERICAN FUNERAL: A STUDY IN GUILT, EXTRAVAGANCE
AND SUBLIMITY (1973)
o Burns, Stanley B. SLEEPING BEAUTY: MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA (1990)
o Coffin, Margaret M. DEATH IN EARLY AMERICA: THE HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF
CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF EARLY MEDICINE, FUNERALS,
BURIALS AND MOURNING (1976)
o Coolidge, Charles Allerton. A MONOGRAPH ON THE GRAVESTONES IN BOSTON AND
VICINITY (1919)
o Cooper, Gilbert. SYMBOLISM IN THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH (1959)
o Crissman, James K. DEATH AND DYING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA: CHANGING ATTITUDES
AND PRACTICES (1994)
o Deetz, James. IN SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN (1977)
o Dickens, Roy (ed.). ARCHAEOLOGY OF URBAN AMERICA: THE SEARCH FOR PATTERN AND
PROCESS (1982)
o Duval, Francis Y. and Ivan B. Rigby. EARLY AMERICAN GRAVESTONE ART (1970)
o Earle, Alice Morse. CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND (1893)
o Forbes, Harriet M. GRAVESTONES OF EARLY NEW ENGLAND AND THE MEN WHO MADE THEM
(1927)
o Geddes, Gordon E. WELCOME JOY (1981)
o Harrah, Barbara K. and David F. Harrah FUNERAL SERVICE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
LITERATURE ON ITS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, THE VARIOUS MEANS OF DISPOSITION
AND MEMORIALIZATION (1976)
o Jackson, Charles O. (ed.). PASSING: THE VISION OF DEATH IN AMERICA (1977)
o Jackson, Kenneth T. and Camilos Jose Vegara SILENT CITIES: THE EVOLUTION OF
THE AMERICAN CEMETERY (1989)
o Jackson, Percival E. THE LAWS OF CADAVERS AND OF BURIAL AND BURIAL PLACES
(1937)
o Kull, Andrew. NEW ENGLAND CEMETERIES: A COLLECTORS GUIDE (1975)
o Ludwig, Allan. GRAVEN IMAGES: NEW ENGLAND STONECARVING AND ITS SYMBOLS -
1650-1805 (1966)
o MARKERS volumes I-X
o McGuire, Randall H. DIALOGS WITH THE DEAD: IDEOLOGY AND THE CEMETERY (1988)
o Meyer, Richard E. (ed.). CEMETERIES AND GRAVEMARKERS: VOICES OF AMERICAN
CULTURE (1989)
o Mitford, Jessica. THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH (1963)
o Prince, Thomas. THE GRAVE AND DEATH DESTROYED (1728)
o Puckle, Bertram S. FUNERAL CUSTOMS: THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT (1926)
o Sloane, David C. THE LAST GREAT NECESSITY: CEMETERIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
(1991)
o Stannard, David. THE PURITAN WAY OF DEATH (1977)
o Tashjian, Dickran and Anna Teshjian. MEMORIALS FOR CHILDREN OF CHANGE: THE
ART OF EARLY NEW ENGLAND STONECARVING (1974)
 
 
 
                            Articles
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o "Burial Customs of East Hartford, Connecticut" PHELPS CONNECTIONS: A
 QUARTERLYPUBLICATION (Summer 1992)
o Cole, Pamela. "Early New England Funeral Customs" JOURNAL OF AMERICAN
 FOLKLORE7 (1894)
o Corbitt, Theodore Graham and Cynthia Arps Corbett. "Europeans on the
 Frontier:Scotch Irish Burial Stones in Pennsylvania"
PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE 32 (1982/83)
o Davidson, T. D. "The Untilled Field" AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW 3 (1955)
o Deetz, James F. and Edwin S. Dethlefsen. "Death's Head, Cherub, Urn and
Willow" NATURAL HISTORY 76(3) 1967
o Deetz, James F. and Edwin S. Dethlefsen. "Some Social Aspects of New England
Mortuary Art" MEMOIRS, SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 25 (1971)
o Dethlefsen, Edwin S. "Colonial Gravestones and Demography" AMERICAN JOURNAL
OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 31(3) 1969
o Dethlefsen, Edwin S. and James F. Deetz. "Death's Heads, Cherubs, and Willow
Trees: Experimental Archaeology in Colonial Cemeteries" AMERICAN ANTIQUITY
35(3) 1966
o Dethlefsen, Edwin S. and James F. Deetz. "Eighteenth Century Cemeteries: A
Demographic View" HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1 (1967)
o Dethlefsen, Edwin S. and Kenneth Jackson. "Social Commentary from the
Cemetery" NATURAL HISTORY 87(6) 1977
o Fales, Martha G. "The Early American Way of Death" Essex Institute HISTORICAL
COLLECTIONS 100 (April 1964)
o Farber, Daniel. "Massachusetts Gravestones" ANTIQUITIES 107(6) 1975
o Franklin, Benjamin. "Recipe for a New England Funeral Elegy"
o Jackson, John B. "The Vanishing Epitaph: From Monument to Place" LANDSCAPE 17
(1967)
o Stilgoe, John R. "Folklore and Graveyard Design" LANDSCAPE 22 (Spring 1978)
o Stone, Gaynell. "Material Evidence of Ideological and Ethnic Choice in Long
Island Gravestones: 1670-1800" MATERIAL CULTURE 23(3) 1991
o Stone, Patricia and Lynn Russell. "Observations on Figures Human and Devine
on Nineteenth Century Ontario Gravestones" MATERIAL HISTORY BULLETIN (Autumn
1986)
o Waterford, Marjdie. "Funeral and Burial Customs: Past and Present" HERITAGE
QUEST: HQ, Nov 1, 1991
o Zelinsky, William. "Unearthly Delights: Cemetery Names as a Key to the Map
of the Changing Underworld" GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MIND: PAPERS IN HONOR OF JOHN
K. WRIGHT (1975)