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 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
- Language
- eng
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
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- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Mourning customs
- Undertakers and undertaking
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Manners and customs
- Mourning customs
- Undertakers and undertaking
- United States
- United States
- Label
- American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 216 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820346007
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013016629
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)841228395
- (OCoLC)ocn841228395
- Label
- American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 216 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820346007
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013016629
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)841228395
- (OCoLC)ocn841228395
Subject
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
- Manners and customs
- Mourning customs
- Mourning customs -- United States
- Electronic books
- Undertakers and undertaking -- United States
- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Undertakers and undertaking
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
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