American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning /

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What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale--that of death in America. It's a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sweeney, Kate, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States.
Mourning customs > United States.
Undertakers and undertaking > United States.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > États-Unis.
Deuil > Coutumes > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Mourning customs
Undertakers and undertaking
United States > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • American ways of death
  • Gone, but not forgotten
  • Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin
  • The cemetery's cemetery
  • Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks
  • The last great obit writers' conference
  • Give me that old-time green burial
  • Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker
  • The house where death lives
  • Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet
  • With the fishes
  • Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun
  • Death by the roadside.

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