Funeral festivals in America : rituals for the living / Jacqueline S. Thursby.

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 Americ...

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Main Author: Thursby, Jacqueline S., 1940- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:Material worlds.
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