02885nam 2200709 450 991045196730332120200520144314.00-8131-3494-30-8131-4987-80-8131-7183-0(CKB)1000000000460807(EBL)1914989(SSID)ssj0000160064(PQKBManifestationID)12008581(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160064(PQKBWorkID)10181740(PQKB)11158011(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038486(MiAaPQ)EBC1914989(OCoLC)65339462(MdBmJHUP)muse43778(Au-PeEL)EBL1914989(CaPaEBR)ebr11011651(CaONFJC)MIL690732(OCoLC)903975236(EXLCZ)99100000000046080720150206h20092006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFuneral festivals in America rituals for the living /Jacqueline S. ThursbyPaperback edition.Lexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2009.©20061 online resource (167 p.)Material WorldsDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-59450-3 0-8131-2380-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Funerals as festivals -- The final passage -- Wakes and other amusements -- Funeral biscuits and funeral feasts -- Mourners' rites -- Explaining the festival and the American way of death.When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how extraordinarily creative and technical human funerary practices would become. Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals seem meant to benefit the living rather than the dead. Funeral Festivals in America suggests that there is an irony in the festivities surrounding death and that the American response to death often develops into an event celebrating the ties between familyMaterial worlds.Funeral rites and ceremoniesUnited StatesFestivalsUnited StatesWake servicesUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial life and customsElectronic books.Funeral rites and ceremoniesFestivalsWake services393/.9Thursby Jacqueline S.1940-1038439MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451967303321Funeral festivals in America2460015UNINA