"Substantial portions of this book were originally published in the American quarterly."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Death and the interpretation of culture / J. Goody -- Death and the Puritan child / D. E. Stannard -- Death in the popular mind of pre-Civil War America / L. O. Saum -- Heaven our home: consolation literature in the northern United States, 1830-1880 / A. Douglas -- The cemetery as cultural institution / S. French -- Death in Mexican folk culture / P. F. Kelly -- Gates ajar: death in Mormon thought and practice / M. A. Meyers -- The reversal of death / P. Aries.
