Funeral festivals in America : rituals for the living / / Jacqueline S. Thursby

• Autore: Thursby Jacqueline S. <1940->
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009; ©2006
• Edizione: Paperback edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 393/.9
• Soggetto topico: Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States; Festivals - United States; Wake services - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social life and customs
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 family
• Titolo autorizzato: Funeral festivals in America
• ISBN: 0-8131-3494-3; 0-8131-4987-8; 0-8131-7183-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777533703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Material worlds.