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  title info:
    title: Rest in peace
    sub title: a cultural history of death and the funeral home in twentieth-century America
  name:
    name part: Laderman, Gary
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xlii, 245 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, & looks at the increasing subordination of religious figures to the funeral director in the late 20th century, demonstrating that the modern director is very far from Mitford's manipulator of 'The American Way of Death'.
  abstract: "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."--Jacket of print edition
  table of contents: Introduction : 1963 -- 1. From house calls to funeral homes : changing relations between the living and the dead -- 2. Explaining the American funeral, 1918-1963 -- 3. Good grief! Jessica Mitford makes The New York times bestseller list -- 4. Keeping the dead in place : old and new patterns of consumption -- 5. Final frontiers : into the twenty-first century -- Epilogue : 9/11.
  note: Gary Laderman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Undertakers and undertaking
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Funeral supplies industry
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Undertakers and undertaking
  subject:
    topic: Mortuary Practice
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pompes funèbres
    topic: Fournitures
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Pompes funèbres
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry
    topic: Environmental)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Environmental Policy
  subject:
    topic: Funeral supplies industry
  subject:
    topic: Undertakers and undertaking
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HD9999.U53 U543 2003eb
  classification: 363.7/5/0973
  classification: WA 840 L154 2003
  classification: 71.57
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    origin info:
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    identifier: (OCoLC)49727627
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 060323
    record change date: 20260318172021.8
    record identifier: in00005701395
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng