Funeral festivals in America : rituals for the living / Jacqueline S. Thursby.
Material type: TextSeries: Material worldsPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (158 pages)Content type:- text
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- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
- Festivals -- United States
- Wake services -- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- États-Unis
- Festivals -- États-Unis
- Veillées funèbres -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
- Festivals
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Manners and customs
- Wake services
- United States
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-154) 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.
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In this volume, the author explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing process. Thursby suggests that there is irony in the festivities surrounding death.
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