Celebrations of Death

Celebrations of Death
Author: Peter Metcalf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 10
Release: 1991-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521423755

Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Author: Dina Khapaeva
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472130269

Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

Remembering Well

Remembering Well
Author: Sarah York
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2002-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0787958654

Remembering Well offers family members, clergy, funeral professionals, and hospice workers ways to plan services and rituals that honor the spirit of the deceased and are faithful to that person's values and beliefs, while also respecting the needs and wishes of those who will attAnd the services. It is an essential resource for anyone who yearns to put death in a spiritual context but is unsure how to do so-including both those who have broken with tradition and those who wish to give new meaning to the time-honored rituals of their faith. The real-life stories, examples, and practical guidelines in this book address a wide array of important issues, including the difficult decisions that survivors must make quickly when a death occurs-and the sensitive topic of family alienation, where possibilities for healing, forgiveness, and hope are explored. The invaluable insights offered here will help those who grieve to prepare mind and spirit for life's final rites of passage.

Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life

Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life
Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1994
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780870498138

However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.

Parting Ways

Parting Ways
Author: Denise Carson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520949412

Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. Denise Carson contrasts her father’s passing in the 1980s, governed by the structures of institutionalized death, with her mother’s death some two decades later. Carson’s moving account of her mother’s dying at home vividly portrays a ceremonial farewell known as a living wake, showing how it closed the gap between social and biological death while opening the door for family and friends to reminisce with her mother. Carson also investigates a variety of solutions--living funerals, oral ethical wills, and home funerals--that revise the impending death scenario. Integrating the profoundly personal with the objectively historical, Parting Ways calls for an "end of life revolution" to change the way of death in America.

Funeral Festivals in America

Funeral Festivals in America
Author: Jacqueline S. Thursby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813171830

In this volume, the author explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing process. Thursby suggests that there is irony in the festivities surrounding death.

Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition

Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition
Author: Regina M Marchi
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2022-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1978821638

Examines how Day of the Dead celebrations among America's Latino communities have changed throughout history, discussing how the traditional celebration has been influenced by mass media, consumer culture, and globalization.

Clatter Bash!

Clatter Bash!
Author: Richard Keep
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1561454613

Get ready for a colorfully entertaining Day of the Dead celebration! Graveyard skeletons shake, rattle, and roll as a Mexican family marks the annual Day of the Dead holiday. At dusk on the holiday known as Day of the Dead, a Mexican family has set out fiesta offerings in the graveyard in hopes that departed loved ones may return to visit. The playful skeletons rise from their graves to celebrate with gusto. All night long, they sing, dance, dine, tell stories, and play games. As morning approaches, they give thanks to the stars for their night of fun, tidy up after themselves, and leave no trace of their "clatter bash" behind as they return to their coffins until next year's Day of the Dead. Author-illustrator Richard Keep's rollicking rhyme―sprinkled with Spanish words―captures the bone-rattling sounds and fun of the evening. An illustrated afterword gives information about the customs associated with el Día de los Muertos, a Mexican celebration of honoring relatives who have passed on.

Fiesta

Fiesta
Author: Chloë Sayer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292722095

Explores a variety of Mexican festivals, most of which are spiritual or religious, including the holidays of Christmas, Carnival, and Holy week, and covers the Days of the Dead, the sacred arts of the Huichol ethnic group, and more, with photographs.