A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion in the region since the twelfth century, discourages tombstones or decorative markers. However, elaborate Kyrgyz tombs combine earlier nomadic customs with Muslim architectural forms. After the territory was formally incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1876, enamel portraits for the deceased were attached to the Muslim monuments. Yet everything within the walls is overgrown with weeds, for it is not Kyrgyz tradition for the living to frequent the graves of the dead.
Architecturally unique, Kyrgyzstan’s dramatically sited cemeteries reveal the complex nature of the Kyrgyz people’s religious and cultural identities. Often said to have left behind few permanent monuments or books, the Kyrgyz people in fact left behind a magnificent legacy when they buried their dead.
Traveling in Kyrgyzstan, photographer Margaret Morton became captivated by the otherworldly grandeur of these cemeteries. Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan collects the photographs she made on several visits to the area and is an important contribution to the architectural and cultural record of this region.
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A photograph walking guide to historic African American cemeteries in New Jersey, Pennsylvania & New York from the 1700s-1800s. A traveling guide to where these historical cemeteries are located, as Dr. Randall O. Westbrook indicated in this book.
Автор: Historical Society of Kent County Название: Historic Graves, Private Burial Grounds and Cemeteries of Kent County, Maryland ISBN: 158549450X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781585494507 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This slender volume contains 110 entries: inscriptions from seventy cemeteries and descriptions related to forty others. Many index entries contain date of birth, date of death, place of burial and/or other information derived from the text and other sources.
Автор: Southerland Cindy Название: Cemeteries of Carson City and Carson Valley ISBN: 1531653634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531653637 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 29420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Ogden Tom Название: Haunted Chicago: Spooky Cemeteries, Ghoulish Ghosts, and Haunted Hotels of the Windy City ISBN: 0762791543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780762791545 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 16880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Among this country`s many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Автор: Karpiel Frank Название: Charleston`s Historic Cemeteries ISBN: 1531668054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531668051 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 29420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sayer Duncan Название: Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity ISBN: 1526135566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526135568 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 39600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were pluralistic, multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories. -- .
Автор: Zimmerman Mark Название: Gone Under: Historic Cemeteries of Nashville, Tennessee ISBN: 0985869240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985869243 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Allan Amanik, Kami Fletcher Название: Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed ISBN: 1496827899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496827890 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de Chaparro Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks what a deeper exploration of that phenomenon can tell us about American history more broadly. Comparative in scope, and regionally diverse, chapters look to immigrants, communities of color, the colonized, the enslaved, rich and poor, and religious minorities as they buried kith and kin in locales spanning the Northeast to the Spanish American Southwest. Whether African Americans, Muslim or Christian Arabs, Indians, mestizos, Chinese, Jews, Poles, Catholics, Protestants, or various whites of European descent, one thing that united these Americans was a drive to keep their dead apart. At times, they did so for internal preference. At others, it was a function of external prejudice. Invisible and institutional borders built around and into ethnic cemeteries also tell a powerful story of the ways in which Americans have negotiated race, culture, class, national origin, and religious difference in the United States during its formative centuries.
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