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Reading the American Cemetery

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A typology of cemeteries with introduction, cemetery form and function (religion, ethnicity, class, social status, regional norms, and patterns), and kind (folk, ethnic, distinctive, religious, pet). Cemeteries as a cultural landscape. What you can tell from a cemetery.

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  1. Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA

    Gillian Acheson & Chelsie McWhorter

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Acheson, G., McWhorter, C. (2020). Reading the American Cemetery. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_159

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