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 -------------- o Bell, Edward. VESTIGES OF MORTALITY AND REMEMBRANCE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF CEMETERIES Books ----- 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 -------- 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)