American afterlife: encounters in the customs of mourning
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Athens
The University of Georgia Press
[2014]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | FAW01 FAW02 Volltext |
| Item Description: | Print version record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0820346004 0820346896 9780820346007 9780820346892 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nmm a2200000zc 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV043033475 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 00000000000000.0 | ||
| 007 | cr|uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 151120s2014 |||| o||u| ||||||eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 0820346004 |9 0-8203-4600-4 | ||
| 020 | |a 0820346896 |9 0-8203-4689-6 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780820346007 |9 978-0-8203-4600-7 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780820346892 |9 978-0-8203-4689-2 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)870646726 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV043033475 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-1046 |a DE-1047 | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 393 |2 23 | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Sweeney, Kate |d 1978- |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a American afterlife |b encounters in the customs of mourning |c Kate Sweeney |
| 264 | 1 | |a Athens |b The University of Georgia Press |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c © 2014 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Print version record | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a What 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin -- The cemetery's cemetery -- Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks -- The last great obit writers' conference -- Give me that old-time green burial -- Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker -- The house where death lives -- Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet -- With the fishes -- Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun -- Death by the roadside | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Funeral rites and ceremonies |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Manners and customs |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Mourning customs |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Undertakers and undertaking |2 fast | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Funeral rites and ceremonies |z United States | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Mourning customs |z United States | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Undertakers and undertaking |z United States | |
| 651 | 4 | |a USA | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Erscheint auch als |n Druck-Ausgabe |a Sweeney, Kate, 1978- |t American afterlife |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052 |x Aggregator |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a ZDB-4-EBA | ||
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-028458125 | ||
| 966 | e | |u http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052 |l FAW01 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FAW_PDA_EBA |x Aggregator |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052 |l FAW02 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FAW_PDA_EBA |x Aggregator |3 Volltext | |
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1804175391585206272 |
|---|---|
| any_adam_object | |
| author | Sweeney, Kate 1978- |
| author_facet | Sweeney, Kate 1978- |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Sweeney, Kate 1978- |
| author_variant | k s ks |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV043033475 |
| collection | ZDB-4-EBA |
| contents | What 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 American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin -- The cemetery's cemetery -- Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks -- The last great obit writers' conference -- Give me that old-time green burial -- Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker -- The house where death lives -- Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet -- With the fishes -- Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun -- Death by the roadside |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)870646726 (DE-599)BVBBV043033475 |
| dewey-full | 393 |
| dewey-hundreds | 300 - Social sciences |
| dewey-ones | 393 - Death customs |
| dewey-raw | 393 |
| dewey-search | 393 |
| dewey-sort | 3393 |
| dewey-tens | 390 - Customs, etiquette, folklore |
| discipline | Sozial-/Kulturanthropologie / Empirische Kulturwissenschaft |
| format | Electronic eBook |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>03449nmm a2200517zc 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV043033475</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">00000000000000.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr|uuu---uuuuu</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">151120s2014 |||| o||u| ||||||eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">0820346004</subfield><subfield code="9">0-8203-4600-4</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">0820346896</subfield><subfield code="9">0-8203-4689-6</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780820346007</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-8203-4600-7</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780820346892</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-8203-4689-2</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)870646726</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV043033475</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-1046</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-1047</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">393</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Sweeney, Kate</subfield><subfield code="d">1978-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">American afterlife</subfield><subfield code="b">encounters in the customs of mourning</subfield><subfield code="c">Kate Sweeney</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Athens</subfield><subfield code="b">The University of Georgia Press</subfield><subfield code="c">[2014]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">© 2014</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages)</subfield><subfield code="b">illustrations</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Print version record</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">What 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</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin -- The cemetery's cemetery -- Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks -- The last great obit writers' conference -- Give me that old-time green burial -- Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker -- The house where death lives -- Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet -- With the fishes -- Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun -- Death by the roadside</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Funeral rites and ceremonies</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Manners and customs</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Mourning customs</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Undertakers and undertaking</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Funeral rites and ceremonies</subfield><subfield code="z">United States</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mourning customs</subfield><subfield code="z">United States</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Undertakers and undertaking</subfield><subfield code="z">United States</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">USA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Erscheint auch als</subfield><subfield code="n">Druck-Ausgabe</subfield><subfield code="a">Sweeney, Kate, 1978-</subfield><subfield code="t">American afterlife</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052</subfield><subfield code="x">Aggregator</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-028458125</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052</subfield><subfield code="l">FAW01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FAW_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="x">Aggregator</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052</subfield><subfield code="l">FAW02</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FAW_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="x">Aggregator</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| geographic | USA |
| geographic_facet | USA |
| id | DE-604.BV043033475 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-10T07:15:33Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 0820346004 0820346896 9780820346007 9780820346892 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-028458125 |
| oclc_num | 870646726 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-1046 DE-1047 |
| owner_facet | DE-1046 DE-1047 |
| physical | 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) illustrations |
| psigel | ZDB-4-EBA ZDB-4-EBA FAW_PDA_EBA |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateSearch | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | The University of Georgia Press |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Sweeney, Kate 1978- Verfasser aut American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning Kate Sweeney Athens The University of Georgia Press [2014] © 2014 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) illustrations txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Print version record What 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 American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin -- The cemetery's cemetery -- Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks -- The last great obit writers' conference -- Give me that old-time green burial -- Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker -- The house where death lives -- Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet -- With the fishes -- Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun -- Death by the roadside SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying bisacsh Funeral rites and ceremonies fast Manners and customs fast Mourning customs fast Undertakers and undertaking fast Funeral rites and ceremonies United States Mourning customs United States Undertakers and undertaking United States USA Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sweeney, Kate, 1978- American afterlife http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052 Aggregator Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Sweeney, Kate 1978- American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning What 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 American ways of death -- Gone, but not forgotten -- Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin -- The cemetery's cemetery -- Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks -- The last great obit writers' conference -- Give me that old-time green burial -- Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker -- The house where death lives -- Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet -- With the fishes -- Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun -- Death by the roadside SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying bisacsh Funeral rites and ceremonies fast Manners and customs fast Mourning customs fast Undertakers and undertaking fast Funeral rites and ceremonies United States Mourning customs United States Undertakers and undertaking United States |
| title | American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning |
| title_auth | American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning |
| title_exact_search | American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning |
| title_full | American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning Kate Sweeney |
| title_fullStr | American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning Kate Sweeney |
| title_full_unstemmed | American afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning Kate Sweeney |
| title_short | American afterlife |
| title_sort | american afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning |
| title_sub | encounters in the customs of mourning |
| topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying bisacsh Funeral rites and ceremonies fast Manners and customs fast Mourning customs fast Undertakers and undertaking fast Funeral rites and ceremonies United States Mourning customs United States Undertakers and undertaking United States |
| topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying Funeral rites and ceremonies Manners and customs Mourning customs Undertakers and undertaking Funeral rites and ceremonies United States Mourning customs United States Undertakers and undertaking United States USA |
| url | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=668052 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT sweeneykate americanafterlifeencountersinthecustomsofmourning |