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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: American afterlife
    sub title: encounters in the customs of mourning
  name:
    name part: Sweeney, Kate
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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:, including 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.
  note: Kate Sweeney.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Funeral rites and ceremonies
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Mourning customs
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Undertakers and undertaking
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: GT3203 .S94 2014
  classification: 393
  identifier: 9780820346007 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0820346004 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2013016629
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130424
    record change date: 20151206100517.0
    record identifier: in00003472617