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Funeral Festivals in America

Rituals for the Living
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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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Jacqueline S. Thursby is an associate professor in the English department at Brigham Young University.
Release date NZ
November 11th, 2009
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
168
Dimensions
152x229x9
ISBN-13
9780813192994
Product ID
3658607

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