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Rest in peace : a cultural history of death and the funeral home in twentieth-century America /
Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, & looks at the increasing subordination of religious figures to the funeral director in the late 20th century, demonstrating that the modern director is very far from Mitford's manipulator of 'The American Way of Death'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : 1963
- 1. From house calls to funeral homes : changing relations between the living and the dead
- 2. Explaining the American funeral, 1918-1963
- 3. Good grief! Jessica Mitford makes The New York times bestseller list
- 4. Keeping the dead in place : old and new patterns of consumption
- 5. Final frontiers : into the twenty-first century
- Epilogue : 9/11.