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
Main Author: Sweeney, Kate, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Undertakers and undertaking.
Mourning customs.
Manners and customs.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Deuil > Coutumes > États-Unis.
Funerailles > Rites et ceremonies > États-Unis.
Undertakers and undertaking > United States.
Mourning customs > United States.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes.
United States > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who find themselves personally involved with death: a klatch of obit writers in the desert, a funeral voyage on the Atlantic, a fourth-generation funeral director--even a midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that's by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780820346892

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