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by Dr. Gregory Jeane. Last updated:
February 6, 2004
This bibliography represents a small sample of published works on the general topic of cemeteries. Topics range from popular culture to more esoteric works on language and symbolism. Geographic coverage includes primarily the United States and Europe and all of them are published in English. A serious student of sacred landscapes will know that there exists a tremendous library of primary and secondary resources in other languages, notably French, on the general topic of cemeteries but also the broader field of death and dying.
Angels. Camp Hill, PA: Book of the-Month-Club, Inc., 1978.
Arensberg, Conrad M. The Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study. Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1968.
Aries, Philippe. Western Attitudes Toward Death From the Middle Ages to the Present. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
_____. The Hour of Our Death. New York: Vintage Books, 1981.
_____. Images of Man and Death. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Bailey, Harold. The Lost Language of Symbolism. 2 volumes. New York: Barnes & Noble. Inc., 1912.
Bailey, Brian. Churchyards of England and Wales. Bristol, England: WBC Printers Ltd., 1987.
Ball, Donald B.; Cavender, Anthony P.; and Riedl, Norbert F. A Survey of Traditional Architecture and Related Material Folk Culture Patterns in the Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee. Knoxville: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1976.
Bloch, Maurice, and Parry, Jonathon. Death & the Regeneration of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Boase, T.S.R. Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgement and Remembrance. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.
Brown, Frederick. Pere Lachaise: Elysium as Real Estate. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1973.
Burgess, Frederick. English Churchyard Memorials. London: Lutter Worth Press, 1963.
Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God. Multi-volume series. London: Penguin Books, 1962.
_____. The Power of Myth. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Carlton, Robert, and Rubin, Arnold, and Rubin, Barbara. L.A. In Installments: Forest Lawn. Santa Monica: Westside Publications, 1979.
Ceram, C.W. Hands on the Past: Pioneer Archaeologists Tell Their Own Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
Choron, Jacques. Death and Western Thought. New York: Penguin Group, 1964.
Christovich, Mary Louise; Huber, Leonard V.; and McDowell, Peggy. New Orleans Architecture Volume III: The Cemeteries. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1974.
Combs, Diana Williams. Early Gravestone Art in Georgia and South Carolina. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Cook, Olive; Hutton, Graham; and Smith, Edwin. English Parish Churches. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
Courlander, Harold. A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976.
Critchfield, Richard. The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures. Ontario, Canada: Fitzherry & Whiteside Limited, 1973.
Culbertson, Judi and Randall, Tom. Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California. Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1989.
Curl, James S., Nunhead Cemetery, London. A history of the Planning, Architecture, Landscaping, and Fortunes of a Great Nineteenth-Century Cemetery, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, New Series, Vol. 22 (1977): 28-89.
Duval, Francis Y. and Rigby, Ivan B. Early American Gravestone Art in Photographs. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978.
Elliot, Brent, et. al. Highgate Cemetery. London: London Art Service Limited, 1978.
Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. L'eglise abbatiale de Saint-Denis. Tome II, Les Tombeaux Royaux. Paris: Editions de la Tourelle, 1976.
Etlin, Richard. The Architecture of Death. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1984.
Forbes, Harriette Merrifield. Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them, 1653-1800. Princeton, NJ: The Pyne Press, 1927.
Funerals: Consumers' Last Rights. Mount Vernon, NY: Consumers Union of United States, Inc., 1977.
Gandolfo, Henri A. Metairie Cemetery, An Historical Memoir: Tales of Its Statesmen, Soldiers and Great Families. New Orleans: Stewart Enterprises, Inc., 1981.
Garland, Robert. The Greek Way of Death. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Gay, John and Barker, Felix. Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla. London: John Murray Publishers, 1984.
Gillon, Edmund V. Jr. Victorian Cemetery Art. Ontario, Canada: General Publishing Company, 1972.
Gorer, Geoffrey. Death, Grief, and Mourning. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965.
Grinsell, Leslie V. Barrows in England and Wales. Shire Archaeology Series. Aylesbury, England: Shire Publications, Ltd., 1979.
Hackman, Harvey. Wates's Book of London Churchyards. London: William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1981.
Harris, Marvin. America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
Herman, Jan. Jewish Cemeteries in Bohemia and Moravia. Brno, Czechoslovakia: Council of Jewish Communities in the Czech Socialist Republic, 1930.
Hick, John. Death and Eternal Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Hogy, Anne M. Virginia Cemeteries: A Guide to Resources. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1986.
Huber, Leonard V., and Wilson, Samuel Jr. The St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans. New Orleans: A. F. Laborde and Sons, 1963.
_______. Clasped Hands: Symbolism in New Orleans Cemeteries. Lafayette, LA: The Center For Louisiana Studies, 1982.
Humphrey, William. The Ordways. New York: Bantam Books, 1964.
_______. Proud Flesh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1969.
Hunter, Doreen, and Willsher, Betty. Stones: 18th Century Scottish Gravestones. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.
Immerwahr, Sara Anderson. Early Burials From the Agora Cemeteries. Meriden, CT: The Meriden Gravure Company, 1973.
Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Jackson, Charles O. Passing: The Vision of Death in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Jeane, Donald G., The Traditional Upland South Cemetery, Landscape, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1969): 39-41.
Jordan, Terry G. Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
Kemp, Brian. Church Monuments. Shire Album 149. Aylesbury, England: Shire Publications Ltd., 1985.
Kolbuszewski, Jacek. Wiersze Zcmentarza. Wroclaw, Poland: Polskie Towarzjstwo Ludoznawcze, 1985.
Krajewska, Monikar. Time of Stones. Warsaw: Interpress, 1983.
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death and Dying. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1969.
Lindley, Kenneth. Of Graves and Epitaphs. London: Hutchinson of London, 1965.
_____. Graves and Graveyard. London: Broadway House, 1972.
Little, M. Ruth. Sticks & Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998.
Long, Steve and Cronin, Xavier. Galveston’s Graveyards, American Cemetery. Vol 66, No. (June 1993): 26ff.
Mann, Thomas C. And Greene, Janet. Over Their Dead Bodies: Yankee Epitaphs & History. Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1962.
Markers: The Journal of the Association For Gravestone Studies. Annual volumes. Worcester, MA: AGS Publications, 1980.
Meier-Ude, Klaus, and Senger, Valentin. Die Judischen Friedhofe in Frankfurt. Frankfurt: W. Kramer & Co., 1985.
Metkin, Sigrid. Die Letzte Reise: Sterben, Tod und Trauersitten in Oberbayern. Munich, Germany: Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 1984.
Meyer, Richard E. Cemeteries & Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1989.
Meyer, Richard E. Ethnicity and the American Cemetery. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.
Montell, William Lynwood. Ghosts Along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
Morgenstern, Julian. Rites of Birth, Marriage, Death and Kindred Occasions Among the Semites. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1966.
Musee de L’Homme. Rites De La Mort. Paris, no date.
Neuman, Erich. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955.
Newman, David. Culture, Conflict, and Cemeteries: Lebensraum for the Dead, Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1986): 99-115.
Nichols, Elaine. The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions 1980-Present. Columbia, SC: Dependable Printing Company, Inc., 1989.
Norton, John. Historical Sketch of Copp's Hill Burying Ground. 13th ed. Boston: By the author, 1917.
Panofsky, Erwin. Tomb Sculpture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., no date.
Pattison, William. The Cemeteries of Chicago: A Phase of Land Utilization, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 45 (1955): 245-257.
Pell, Derek. Doktor Bey's Book of the Dead. New York: Avon Books, 1981.
Rudofsky, Bernard. Architecture Without Architects. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
Saxon, Lyle, ed. Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1988.
Schorsch, Anita. A Key to the Kingdom: The Iconography of a Mourning Picture, Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 14, No.1 (Spring 1979): 41-71.
Sloane, David Charles. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1991.
Spiegl, Fritz. A Small Book of Grave Humor. London: Pan Books, 1971.
Thomas, Samuel W. Cave Hill Cemetery: A Pictorial Guide and Its History. Louisville, KY: Cave Hill Cemetery Company, 1985.
Utechin, Patricia. Epitaphs From Oxfordshire. Oxford, England: Robert Dugdale, 1980.
Wasserman, Emily. Gravestone Designs Rubbing and Photographs From Early New York and New Jersey. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972.
Weitzman, David. Underfoot: An Everyday Guide to Exploring the American Past. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976.
Wright, Geoffrey N. Discovering Epitaphs. Aylesbury, England: Shire Publications, Ltd., 1972.
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February 6, 2004
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