LEADER 02885nam 2200709 450 001 9910451967303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-3494-3 010 $a0-8131-4987-8 010 $a0-8131-7183-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460807 035 $a(EBL)1914989 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000160064 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12008581 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160064 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181740 035 $a(PQKB)11158011 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1914989 035 $a(OCoLC)65339462 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43778 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1914989 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011651 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690732 035 $a(OCoLC)903975236 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460807 100 $a20150206h20092006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFuneral festivals in America $erituals for the living /$fJacqueline S. Thursby 205 $aPaperback edition. 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (167 p.) 225 1 $aMaterial Worlds 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-59450-3 311 $a0-8131-2380-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFunerals 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. 330 $aWhen Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how extraordinarily creative and technical human funerary practices would become. Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals seem meant to benefit the living rather than the dead. Funeral Festivals in America suggests that there is an irony in the festivities surrounding death and that the American response to death often develops into an event celebrating the ties between family 410 0$aMaterial worlds. 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zUnited States 606 $aFestivals$zUnited States 606 $aWake services$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies 615 0$aFestivals 615 0$aWake services 676 $a393/.9 700 $aThursby$b Jacqueline S.$f1940-$01038439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451967303321 996 $aFuneral festivals in America$92460015 997 $aUNINA