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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Funeral"”.
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Proposals for the Funeral Artefacts for Six Women
This research explores, through practice, the capacity of fine art to embody and illuminate the meanings of ageing, and anticipation of death, of a number of women in their later middle years. The methodology incorporates some elements associated with interpretative sociology together with a …
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Crossroads: An interdisciplinary study of funeral directors in Indiana
<p>This work is an ethnographic study of funeral directors in Indiana, focusing on the social role they play. Funeral directors, through performances as director and actor, with their living tableaux and focus on the life of the deceased individual, rather than his or her death, offer us the …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… who also praised unmarried female monastics in funeral sermons [<em>Leichenpredigten</em>]. Lutheran pastors wrote funeral sermons for both <em>Stiftsdamen</em> and married women, funeral sermons display similarities or differences between what virtues, characteristics, and displays of piety for …
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Funeral rites among Ashanti immigrants in Toronto: A case study (Ontario)
… their strict observance and co-operation during funeral rites. I attempt to answer the following questions: To what extent do the Ashantis who have migrated to Canada still hold on to indigenous concepts and funeral practices? By virtue of their being in two worlds what difficulties come their …
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Analysis of Environmental-Ethical Concerns Within the United States Funeral Industry
… present in the United States funeral industry, focusing on the lack of environmental ethical guidelines at an industrial and policy level. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach through the lenses of environmental science, philosophical ethical considerations surrounding …
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Armatures For Success: Advancing Racial Equity For Funeral Service Technology Students
… performance. The participants were alumni of the funeral service technology program at Northwest Mississippi Community College. African American graduates of this vocational course failed at increasingly disparate rates above Caucasian graduates in the national board licensing examination, despite …
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Cheaper Than A Funeral: Considering Ibogaine’s Psychedelic Journey and Therapeutic Potential
The past decade has seen a surge of interest in psychedelic compounds as therapeutic medicine. Ibogaine, an indole alkaloid extracted exclusively from an endangered family of shrubs from Central African nations of Gabon and Cameroon, is a psychedelic currently being studied for its unique …
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The unroofing history of the funeral mountains metamorphic core complex, California
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1994.
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ANTYESTI (LAST SACRIFICE): FUNERAL RITES PERFORMED BY HINDU FROM WESTERN REGION OF NEPAL
<p> This Thesis will discuss the process of making, “Anyesti - The Last Sacrifice” which I have directed, produced and edited. It will cover the rites performed by people residing in the western part of Nepal. It will recount how the concept of making a documentary about the last rites came into my …
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Death in the Royal Family: Victorian Funeral Sermon Techniques in Tennyson's National Poetry
… to Victoria — is illuminated when read as a funeral sermon. By drawing out the funeral sermon techniques Tennyson incorporates, we see that he assumes a role as religious mediator to counsel and comfort Victoria in her grief. Tennyson's funeral sermon message alters quite distinctively from …
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Consumer preparedness, knowledge, and opinions about practices and regulations of the funeral industry
… selected practices and regulations of the funeral industry. Questionnaires were returned by 226 respondents; this represented 75.00% of the sample. The Consumer Funeral Test was developed for this study and included a knowledge, opinion, and preparedness section. Mean achievement score on …
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Between worlds : communication perspectives of female funeral celebrants in British Columbia --- a visual ethnography
… online, multimedia project that explores female funeral celebrant perspectives on communicating with members of the general public who are immersed in liminal states of consciousness during the process of bereavement. Non-representational theory is incorporated to afford better understanding of …
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The funeral : the management of death and its rituals in a Northern industrial city
… the subsequent actions of the bereaved, funeral directors, clergy and others within the death system, illuminated the production of ritual from a number of different standpoints. This has thrown into relief, the ordinary 'common' or 'folk religious' understandings by which actors make …
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Matter and spirit : early 21st century funeral urns for the quick and the dead
… long tradition. In so doing I could make urns - funeral urns in a sense - that could memorialise my own relationships to specific individuals. Obviously, these vessels are funeral urns in a metaphorical sense only as these pots will never actually be used as burial vessels. Metaphorically they …
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Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960
… every city and town possessed at least one funeral home in a remodeled dwelling. Using industry publications, newspapers, photographs, legal documents, and field work, this dissertation mines the funeral industry's shift from business district to residential district for insights into …
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Choices for the living, honour for the dead : a century of funeral and memorial practices in Lethbridge
This thesis explores the customs and traditions surrounding death and memorialization in the history of Lethbridge, paying particular attention to the public "face" of the practices as observed in newspaper death notices, obituaries, in-memoriams, undertaker advertisements, gravestones and …
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Paradigm Shift in African American Funeral Customs: Looking through the Lens of Oral History and Consumer Culture
The degree attainment of college students is a critical issue that institutions of higher education are considering. Colleges want to improve their retention, progression, and graduation rates for all students. Over the past decades men, based on the literature reviewed, have earned fewer degrees …
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The South African township funeral : a 'site of resistance' of HIV and AIDS that promotes leading causes of life
Is a South African township funeral a 'site of resistance' to HIV which provides communities with a means for achieving a telos of health? Could the funeral embody the leading causes of life (a theory used to develop the analysis) needed to create and sustain life in the midst of illness and death? …
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