TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thursby,Jacqueline S.
TI  - Funeral Festivals in America: Rituals for the Living
T2  - Material Worlds Series
SN  - 9780813149875
AV  - GT3203 -- .T48 2009eb 
U1  - 393/.9 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
KW  - Festivals -- United States
KW  - Wake services -- United States
KW  - United States -- Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- One: Funerals as Festivals -- Two: The Final Passage -- Three: Wakes and Other Amusements -- Four: Funeral Biscuits and Funeral Feasts -- Five: Mourners' Rites -- Six: Explaining the Festival and the American Way of Death -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - 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 members and friends. Thursby cites rituals for loved ones separated at the time of death, the frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites and ongoing commemorations, and many other facets of the American way of dealing with death
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