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Last rites : the work of the modern funeral director / Glennys Howarth.

Title
  1. Last rites : the work of the modern funeral director / Glennys Howarth.
Published by
  1. Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., c1996.
Author
  1. Howarth, Glennys

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Description
  1. vii, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Death, value, and meaning series
Uniform title
  1. Death, value, and meaning series.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1800-1994
  2. Funeral rites and ceremonies
  3. Death > Social aspects
  4. Undertakers and undertaking
  5. Undertakers and undertaking > Social aspects
Contents
  1. Modern death rituals and the undertaker -- The business of funeral directing -- Funeral directing in Easton -- Becoming an undertaker -- The contaminated corpse -- Making arrangements -- Humanizing the body -- The funeral ceremony -- The undertaker: past, present, and future.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain