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- 1From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 80, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFocusing on recent changes at a central Israeli site marking the Holocaust and the fallen, I demonstrate that memorial sites are palimpsests, with careers that reflect changing understandings o[ death and national...
- 2From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1911, eleven-year-old Isabel Crixel celebrated her first communion by posing for a formal portrait at a studio in Brownsville, Texas (Fig. 1). Her sweet young face grave, she clings to a rough wooden cross in her...
- 3From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough I am a historian, I am not drawn to cemeteries. I rarely visit them, either as a researcher in quest of genealogical information or a mourner visiting loved ones who have passed on. I remind myself to visit my...
- 4From:Apollo (Vol. 184, Issue 644)I suppose it was the sheer beauty of the place, a green oasis of peace in the heart of Rome, that first appealed to me. Only gradually did its history, as a microcosm of the foreign community in Italy, also fascinate...
- 5From:New England Review (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1990 I lived in York, England. My apartment was about a mile north of the old city wall, and most mornings I would walk down Bootham, through the old gate called Bootham Bar, and explore the city. One drizzling...
- 6From:The Architectural Review (Vol. 217, Issue 1295)
Ashes to ashes: artists and architects collaborate to create a powerful, sobering memorial in Poland
The Belzec Cemetery continues a powerful tradition of monuments that literally build upon the horror of past events. Instead of shying away from the scale of the atrocity--be it a killing field, a battlefield, the site... - 7From:Islam & Science (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"I had forbidden you to visit graves, but Muhammad has been permitted to visit the grave of his mother, so visit them, for truly, they remind you of the hereafter." (Tirmidhi, Sunan, Kitab al-Jana'iz, ma ja'a fil-rukhsa...
- 8From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 60, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1. What startles: its small size, mound wrong, too short, low, a scale model of a grave next to all the real ones. 2. The white flowers by the tombstone look like a ribbon won for an art project. 3. Stone is too new for...
- 9From:Ontario History (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Cultural landscapes are architectural creations, which is to say that all mankind's scratchings on the earth surface have a style as well as a substance. In this essay we explore the design of Christian...
- 10From:Sante Mentale au Quebec (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRÉSUMÉ Le Plan d'action 2015-2020 en santé mentale du Québec vise, chez les personnes présentant des troubles mentaux graves, le développement d'une autonomie optimale dans la société et l'utilisation adéquate des...
- 11From:Antiquity (Vol. 94, Issue 377) Peer-ReviewedR.N.E. BARTON, ABDELJALIL BOUZOUGGAR, SIMON N. COLLCUTT & LOUISE T. HUMPHRIES (ed.). 2019. Cemeteries and sedentism in the later Stone Age of NWAfrica: excavations at Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco (Monographien...
- 12From:Society (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIf it be easy to see that it is more particularly important in democratic ages that spiritual opinions should prevail, it is not easy to say by what means those who govern democratic nations may make them predominate....
- 13From:Business Case Journal (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe case was prepared by the author and is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion. The opinions represented here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society for Case...
- 14From:The Qualitative Report (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper is a description of collaborative research that was done together with students during the class "Contemplative Sociology. Experiencing Self, No-Self and the Lifeworld." The goal of the research was to...
- 15From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt was just over 70 years ago, in early 1947, that Evelyn Waugh was introduced to the wonders of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, a few miles east of Hollywood. At a point when his negotiations with...
- 16From:Plant Ecology (Vol. 213, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedMany grassland plant species have limited capacity to disperse their seeds beyond local boundaries by natural means. Meanwhile, various forms of human transportation are observed to provide long-distance dispersal....
- 17From:Appalachian Review (Vol. 50, Issue 1)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2022.0012 Etruscans built graves from bedrock clay, away from the living, outside the city. Cemeteries carved with gabled roofs, doors & windows framed from stone. There were patio...
- 18From:Antiquity (Vol. 83, Issue 322) Peer-ReviewedWe will never be able to excavate everything--nor should we--but it would be good to know how to make the best use of what is visible in the landscape to write social prehistories. In this project the author creates a...
- 19From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe headstone marking the grave of Philip N. J. Wythe now lies flat on its back, face to the sun, partially hidden among the tall grasses at the Barton Heights Cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia. The marker's form is...
- 20From:Harvard Review (Issue 36)One of the world's thin places. Sometimes they speak, and the long dead come keening their confederate cry. Light silts through tulip poplars, waving. Light on granite stones. Loose winds hold renegade voices, fugitive...