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Author | : Robert Wesley Habenstein |
Publisher | : Milwaukee : Bulfin |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Embalming |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Wesley Habenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : Embalming |
ISBN | : 9780615989402 |
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Author | : Robert W. Habenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781558888524 |
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Author | : National Funeral Directors Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692120569 |
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Author | : Suzanne E. Smith |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674267443 |
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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.
Author | : Loretto Dennis Szucs |
Publisher | : Ancestry Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781593312770 |
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Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""
Author | : Christopher Leevy Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African American businesspeople |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jean-Nicolas Gannal |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040853890 |
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Author | : Caleb Wilde |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0062465260 |
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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
Author | : LeRoy Bowman |
Publisher | : Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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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.