The History of American Funeral Directing
Author | : Robert Wesley Habenstein |
Publisher | : Milwaukee : Bulfin |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Embalming |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Wesley Habenstein |
Publisher | : Milwaukee : Bulfin |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Embalming |
ISBN | : |
For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Author | : Suzanne E. Smith |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674267443 |
From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or “homegoing” ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the local white power structure. Most important, their financial freedom gave them the ability to support the struggle for civil rights and, indeed, to serve the living as well as bury the dead. During the Jim Crow era, black funeral directors relied on racial segregation to secure their foothold in America’s capitalist marketplace. With the dawning of the civil rights age, these entrepreneurs were drawn into the movement to integrate American society, but were also uncertain how racial integration would affect their business success. From the beginning, this tension between personal gain and community service shaped the history of African American funeral directing. For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long—and often violent—struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.
Author | : Vanderlyn R. Pine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780829008715 |
Author | : Jen Kiernan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2009* |
Genre | : Funeral rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : |
A collection of editorials from the American Funeral Director magazine spanning 1917 to 1969 on a variety of topics within the funeral services profession.
Author | : Robert Wesley Habenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : Embalming |
ISBN | : 9780615989402 |
Author | : Arthur Leonard Howell Street |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Burial laws |
ISBN | : |
Author | : LeRoy Bowman |
Publisher | : Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
In its secular aspects the American funeral appears to be an anachronism, an elaboration of earlier customs rather than the adaptation to modern needs that it should be. Properly employed, it is a highly useful and essential function of society. Improperly used it deteriorates into little more than a shabby opportunity to exploit or impoverish bereaved families. The purpose of this study is to acquaint the reader with the basis of charges of commercial exploitation directed at undertakers, to ascertain what peculiar circumstances influence the methods he uses, and to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie conspicuous display. The research for this study was carried on over a period of five years. This scientific effort is made to ascertain if the positive functions anthropologists have assigned to funerary rites as observed in other societies also pertain to the funerals of modern industrialized societies, particularly American society.