"Preserving their form and features": The role of coffins in the American understanding of death, 1607-1870
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially with regard to its role in the integration of death in American society before 1870. Coffins have generally been ignored by material culture studies primarily because of our society's cultural uneas...
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W&M ScholarWorks
1996
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623890 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3800&context=etd |