Death in America / Philippe Aries ... [et al.] ; edited , with an introd. by David E. Stannard - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975 - xv , 158 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

'Substantial portions of this book were originally published in the American quarterly'

Includes bibliographical references

Goody, J. Death and the interpretation of culture.--Stannard, D. E. Death and the Puritan child.--Saum, L. O. Death in the popular mind of pre-Civil War America.--Douglas, A. Heaven our home: consolation literature in the northern United States, 1830-1880.--French, S. The cemetery as cultural institution.--Kelly, P. F. Death in Mexican folk culture.--Meyers, M. A. Gates ajar: death in Mormon thought and practice.--Aries, P. The reversal of death.

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