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What's New at Arcadia

Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

FUNERAL AND BURIAL CUSTOMS
Information on historical burial practices of different cultures religions fraternal organizations military and specific geographic locations around the world.
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  Link   Museum of Funeral Customs
Provides the public with a deeper understanding of the history of American funeral and mourning customs funerary art and practice
  Link   History of Funeral Customs
The history of funeral service is a history of mankind. Funeral customs are as old as civilization itself.
  Link   What do Mexicans Celebrate on the Day of The Dead?
This is an ancient festivity that has been much transformed through the years but which was intended in prehispanic Mexico to celebrate children and the dead. Hence the best way to describe this Mexican holiday is to say that it is a time when Mexica
  Link   Fish Eaters: All Souls Day
The traditional Catholic rites and customs of All Souls Day (2 November) the day to remember the souls of the faithful departed
  Link   Yen Dynasty Chariot Burial
Historical records show that the earliest chariot burial site found dates back to the later half of the Shang Dynasty (BC 16th-11th c.).
  Link   England's Wetwang Chariot Burial
In March 2001 an Iron Age grave was discovered in the village of Wetwang in East Yorkshire England.
  Link   British Iron Age Chariot Burial
Chariot burials remain one of the rarest and most intriguing forms of burial rites known in Britain. Dating from roughly 500-100 BC they are thought to represent the final rites of elite individuals of the middle Iron Age.
  Link   Roman Chariot Burial
Information about a Roman burial site with well-preserved remains of chariots and horses
  Link   Choctaw Burial Customs
A resource for information on the Choctaw tribe and the mourning burial and ceremonial rituals they performed.
  Link   Fish Eaters: Traditional Catholic Funerals
The traditional Catholic funeral -- prayers rites customs
  Link   Iroquois Book of Rights
A history of the six day mourning period of the Iroquois tribe that consisted of scaffolding the deceased; the one year "lesser mourning" period; and the twelve year ceremony of reinterment and "feast of the dead".
  Link   Native American Religion
"Individual tribes maintained their own death customs and adapted them to their regional environments into which they migrated although such rituals and beliefs could pass from one group to the other through trade and intermarriage."
  Link   Hopewell Indian Culture
History of the Hopewell tribe, their ceremonial and burial practices, construction of burial mounds and charnel houses and cremated remains of tribe members.
  Link   Inquiries and Suggestions upon the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
(PDF file) Excellent resource with the following topics discussed: Inhumation Cremation Above Ground Burial Aquatic Burial Mourning and Feasts.
  Link   The Functions and Forms of Masks
"In cultures in which burial customs are important anthropomorphic masks have often been used in ceremonies associated with the dead and departing spirits."
  Link   Partical Scaffold Burial and Ossuaries
Natchez and Choctaw tribes that practiced "burials which consisted in first depositing the bodies on scaffolds where they were allowed to remain for a variable length of time after which the bones were cleaned and deposited in the earth
  Link   Mourning: Rituals Clothing and Customs
Mourning customs and rituals of the 19th century
  Link   Texas Folk Cemeteries
"...Texas German cemeteries differ markedly from southern Anglo-American and Mexican graveyards. Such southern traditions as wife-to-the-left burial bordered family plots and feet-to-the east internment are often not adhered to by the Germans&qu
  Link   Burial Ritual Religion and Cannibilism
In the same humanly manner that Neandertals cared for their disabled companions they also buried their dead.
  Link   Thanatos
The internets largest archive of nineteenth century postmortem photographs.
  Link   Burial Rituals and the Afterlife of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek Burial Rituals
 
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