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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Sweeney, Kate, 1978- author.     Subjects     Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States.     Mourning customs -- United States.     Undertakers and undertaking -- United States.     United States -- Social life and customs.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sweeney, Kate, 1978- author.       by title:      American afterlife [...         MARC Display

American afterlife [electronic resource] : encounters in the customs of mourning / Kate Sweeney. by Sweeney, Kate, 1978- author. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c2014. Subjects Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States.   Mourning customs -- United States.   Undertakers and undertaking -- United States.   United States -- Social life and customs. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=47CD79A9-64E7-43CE-A23A-BDE569B68A4E This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/3593-1/{47CD79A9-64E7-43CE-A23A-BDE569B68A4E}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780820346892 (electronic bk.) 0820346896 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations Contents:  American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin -- The cemetery's cemetery -- Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks -- The last great obit writers' conference -- Give me that old-time green burial -- Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker -- The house where death lives -- Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet -- With the fishes -- Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun -- Death by the roadside. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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