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Book Synopsis The History of American Funeral Directing by : Robert Wesley Habenstein
Download or read book The History of American Funeral Directing written by Robert Wesley Habenstein and published by Milwaukee : Bulfin. This book was released on 1962 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For other editions, see Author Catalog.
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Book Synopsis To Serve the Living by : Suzanne E. Smith
Download or read book To Serve the Living written by Suzanne E. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or “homegoing” ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the local white power structure. Most important, their financial freedom gave them the ability to support the struggle for civil rights and, indeed, to serve the living as well as bury the dead. During the Jim Crow era, black funeral directors relied on racial segregation to secure their foothold in America’s capitalist marketplace. With the dawning of the civil rights age, these entrepreneurs were drawn into the movement to integrate American society, but were also uncertain how racial integration would affect their business success. From the beginning, this tension between personal gain and community service shaped the history of African American funeral directing. For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long—and often violent—struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.
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Download or read book The American Funeral Director ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caretaker of the Dead by : Vanderlyn R. Pine
Download or read book Caretaker of the Dead written by Vanderlyn R. Pine and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of American Funeral Directing by : Robert Wesley Habenstein
Download or read book The History of American Funeral Directing written by Robert Wesley Habenstein and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Funeral Director Archives by : Jen Kiernan
Download or read book The American Funeral Director Archives written by Jen Kiernan and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of editorials from the American Funeral Director magazine spanning 1917 to 1969 on a variety of topics within the funeral services profession.
Book Synopsis American Funeral Law by : Arthur Leonard Howell Street
Download or read book American Funeral Law written by Arthur Leonard Howell Street and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Funeral by : LeRoy Bowman
Download or read book The American Funeral written by LeRoy Bowman and published by Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its secular aspects the American funeral appears to be an anachronism, an elaboration of earlier customs rather than the adaptation to modern needs that it should be. Properly employed, it is a highly useful and essential function of society. Improperly used it deteriorates into little more than a shabby opportunity to exploit or impoverish bereaved families. The purpose of this study is to acquaint the reader with the basis of charges of commercial exploitation directed at undertakers, to ascertain what peculiar circumstances influence the methods he uses, and to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie conspicuous display. The research for this study was carried on over a period of five years. This scientific effort is made to ascertain if the positive functions anthropologists have assigned to funerary rites as observed in other societies also pertain to the funerals of modern industrialized societies, particularly American society.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of the American Funeral Director by : Thomas E. Kelly
Download or read book The Evolution of the American Funeral Director written by Thomas E. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis the American Way of Death by : Jessica Mitford
Download or read book the American Way of Death written by Jessica Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rest in Peace written by Gary Laderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it? In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the century, to the increasing subordination of priests, ministers, and other religious figures to the funeral director throughout the twentieth century. In doing so he shows that far from manipulating vulnerable mourners, as Jessica Mitford claimed in her best-selling The American Way of Death (1963), funeral directors are highly respected figures whose services reflect the community's deepest needs and wishes. Indeed, Laderman shows that funeral directors generally give the people what they want when it is time to bury our dead. He reveals, for example, that the open casket, often criticized as barbaric, provides a deeply meaningful moment for friends and family who must say goodbye to their loved one. But he also shows how the dead often come back to life in the popular imagination to disturb the peace of the living. Drawing upon interviews with funeral directors, major historical events like the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Rudolf Valentino, films, television, newspaper reports, proposals for funeral reform, and other primary sources, Rest in Peace cuts through the rhetoric to show us the reality--and the real cultural value--of the American funeral.
Book Synopsis Celebrating 130 Years of Funeral Service History by : Edward J. Defort
Download or read book Celebrating 130 Years of Funeral Service History written by Edward J. Defort and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Right Way of Death by : Eric Layer
Download or read book The Right Way of Death written by Eric Layer and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Funeral written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Funeral Director by : Caleb Wilde
Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying
