Gone to the Grave : Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 /

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The complicated process of preparing the dead for burial is now the province of funeral industry professionals, but this is a recent development. Until the end of World War II, especially in rural parts of the South and documented here across the Arkansas Ozarks, members of the deceased's commu...

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Autor principal: Burnett, Abby (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi Jackson, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Sepulture > Aspect social > Ozark, Monts > Histoire.
Funerailles > Rites et ceremonies > Ozark, Monts > Histoire.
Sepulture > Aspect social > Arkansas > Histoire.
Funerailles > Rites et ceremonies > Arkansas > Histoire.
Burial > Social aspects > Ozark Mountains > History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Ozark Mountains > History.
Burial > Social aspects > Arkansas > History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Arkansas > History.
United States > Ozark Mountains.
Arkansas.
Ozark, Monts > Moeurs et coutumes.
Arkansas > Moeurs et coutumes.
Ozark Mountains > Social life and customs.
Arkansas > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Keeping death at bay
  • Sitting up with the sick and dying
  • Laying out the body
  • Sitting up with the body
  • Coffins and caskets
  • Notification, transportation, and farewell
  • Creating graves and graveyards
  • Marking the graves
  • Funerals and decoration day
  • Childbirth, children, and death
  • Disenfranchised death
  • Early undertaking.

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