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100 1 $aSweeney, Kate,$d1978-
245 10 $aAmerican afterlife :$bencounters in the customs of mourning /$cKate Sweeney.
264 1 $aAthens :$bThe University of Georgia Press,$c[2014]
300 $axiv, 216 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-216).
520 $aWhat 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.
650 0 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMourning customs$zUnited States.
650 0 $aUndertakers and undertaking$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs.
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