Passed on : African American mourning stories : a memorial /

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Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a part...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites.
African Americans > Death.
Noirs américains > Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
Noirs américains > Mort.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites
Coutume funéraire.
Pompes funèbres.
Afro-américain.
Mort.
20e siècle.
États-Unis.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Who's got the body?", the business of burial
  • Mortification, how we die
  • Ends of days
  • Funeralized, the remains of our days
  • Promise of hope in a season of despair, a funeral sermon by Maurice O. Wallace.

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