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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Funeral directors"”.
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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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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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Grief reactions experienced by widows compared to perceptions of widows' grief reactions by selected professions
… selected professionals were clergy, counselors, funeral directors, and physicians. 300 widows from Widowed Persons Service in Ft. Worth, TX were randomly selected and sent a demographic questionnaire, the Bereavement Experience Questionnaire (BEQ), the Impact of Event Scale (IES), and the Coping …
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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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Change and development in the British funeral industry during the 20th century, with special reference to the period 1960-1994
… to a full-time specialist known today as the funeral director. Around 1900 the function of the undertaker was chiefly to supply the coffin and the means of transportation to the place of disposal. However, due to urbanization and the transition of the place of death from home to hospital, both …