Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 / Erik R. Seeman.
Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 / Erik R. Seeman.
Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 / Erik R. Seeman.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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N306.9097/1
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English
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Physical content
372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: ways of dying, ways of living -- Old worlds of death -- First encounters -- Burial and disinterment in the Chesapeake -- Holy bones and beautiful deaths in New France -- Grave missions: Christianizing death in New England -- Across the waters: African American deathways -- Crossing bou...
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2010.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Thanatology--United States
- Attitude to Death--United States
- Funeral Rites--history--United States
- History, 17th Century--United States
- History, 18th Century--United States
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600--United States
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Summary
According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and Europeans encountered one another, they could not ignore the similarities in their approaches to death. All of these groups believed in an afterlife to which the soul or spirit traveled after death. As a result all felt that corpses--the earthly vessels for the soul or spirit--shoul...
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Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 / Erik R. Seeman.
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Early American studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2010.
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N306.9097/1
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74VvvREPNEVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvvREPNEVA
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ISBN
0812242297 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780812242294 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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306.9097
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991007471329702626
