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Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed: the writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Sofia Kotilainen

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LiteratureHealth (social science)Literacy skillbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectReligious studiesAncient historyLiteracyPhilosophyRural peopleSociologybusinessInscribed figuremedia_common

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At the end of the nineteenth century, more and more sepulchral monuments made of a durable material began to be erected in Finnish rural graveyards. The personal names inscribed on the monuments to...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2013.787591