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Puritan Gravestone Art

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings

CONTENTS

Opening Remarks, June 19, 1976
Peter Benes, Michael L. Cornog, David D. Hall, Nancy Buckeye

SECTION I, RESEARCH AND METHODS

Principles and Methods for the Study of the Work of Individual Carvers
James A. Slater

Zerubbabel Collins’ Successor and his work in Bennington County, Vermont
William E. Harding

SECTION II, STUDIES OF SYMBOLISM AND IMAGERY

The Gravestone Image as a Puritan Cultural Code
David D. Hall

From Significant Incompetence to Insignificant Competence
Stephen C. Foster

Eros and Agape: Classical and Early Christian Survivals in New England Stonecarving
Allan I. Ludwig

The Caricature Hypothesis Re-examined: the Animated Skull as a Puritan Folk Image
Peter Benes

SECTION III, CULTURAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES

Chips from Hawthorne’s Workshop: the Icon and Cultural Studies
Thomas A. Zaniello

Nonchronological Sources of Variation in the Seriation of Gravestone Motifs in the Northeast and Southeast Colonies
Frederick Gorman, Michael DiBlasi

SECTION IV, PRESERVATION AND REPRODUCTION TECHNIQUES

The Gloucester Experiment: Community Partnership and Preservation Strategies
Carole L. Sharoff

Stone Rubbing: Are Model Laws Needed? A Seminar Open Forum
Moderator: Jessie Lie
Panelists: Francis Y. Duval
William McGeer

Rubbings and Their Place in the Study of New England Gravestones
Ann Parker, Avon Neal

Photography of Early Gravestone Art
Daniel Farber

SECTION V, BIBLIOGRAPHY

Early American Gravestone Studies: the Structure of the Literature
Nancy Buckeye

Bibliography of Gravestone Studies
Nancy Buckeye

Notes on Contributors