The Resource American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
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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 obituary 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 216 pages
- Contents
-
- American ways of death
- Gone, but not forgotten
- Dismal trade : Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist, Under the skin
- The cemetary's cemetary
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780820350585
- Label
- American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning
- Title
- American afterlife
- Title remainder
- encounters in the customs of mourning
- Statement of responsibility
- Kate Sweeney
- Subject
-
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
- Manners and customs
- Mourning customs
- Mourning customs -- United States
- Tod
- Bestattung
- Trauer
- USA
- Undertakers and undertaking
- Undertakers and undertaking -- United States
- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Totenkult
- Language
- eng
- 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 obituary 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sweeney, Kate
- Dewey number
- 393
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- GT3203
- LC item number
- .S94 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Mourning customs
- Undertakers and undertaking
- United States
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Manners and customs
- Mourning customs
- Undertakers and undertaking
- United States
- Tod
- Trauer
- Bestattung
- Totenkult
- USA
- Label
- American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade : Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist, Under the skin -- The cemetary's cemetary -- 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
- Control code
- ocn841228395
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 216 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820350585
- Lccn
- 2013016629
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780820346007
- (OCoLC)841228395
- Label
- American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade : Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist, Under the skin -- The cemetary's cemetary -- 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
- Control code
- ocn841228395
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 216 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820350585
- Lccn
- 2013016629
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780820346007
- (OCoLC)841228395
Subject
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
- Manners and customs
- Mourning customs
- Mourning customs -- United States
- Tod
- Bestattung
- Trauer
- USA
- Undertakers and undertaking
- Undertakers and undertaking -- United States
- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Totenkult
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