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  • Last Rites: The Work of the Modern Funeral Director

    Last Rites by Howarth, Glennys;

    The Work of the Modern Funeral Director

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 15 June 1996
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780895033451
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages232 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 340 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book examines death rituals and the social significance of undertaking in western society and presents an ethnographic account of funeral directing in an area of east London which, for the purposes of anonymity. It is concerned with undertakers' perceptions and organization of death rituals.

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    Long description:

    This book examines death rituals and the social significance of undertaking in western society and presents an ethnographic account of funeral directing in an area of east London which, for the purposes of anonymity. It is concerned with undertakers' perceptions and organization of death rituals.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction CHAPTER 1 Modern Death Rituals and the Undertaker CHAPTER 2 The Business of Funeral Directing CHAPTER 3 Funeral Directing in Easton CHAPTER 4 Becoming an Undertaker CHAPTER 5 The Contaminated Corpse CHAPTER 6 Making Arrangements CHAPTER 7 Humanizing the Body CHAPTER 8 The Funeral Ceremony CONCLUSION: The Undertaker: Past, Present, and Future Bibliography Index

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