Gone to the grave : burial customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950

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Label

Gone to the grave : burial customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950

Title remainder

burial customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950

Statement of responsibility

Abby Burnett

Creator

• Burnett, Abby

Author

• Burnett, Abby

Subject

• Burial -- Social aspects -- Arkansas -- History
• Burial -- Social aspects -- Ozark Mountains -- History
• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Arkansas -- History
• Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Ozark Mountains -- History
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
• Arkansas
• Manners and customs
• Ozark Mountains -- Social life and customs
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
• United States -- Ozark Mountains
• History
• Arkansas -- Social life and customs

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

The complicated process of preparing the dead for burial is now the province of funeral industry professionals, but this is a recent development. Until the end of World War II, especially in rural parts of the South and documented here across the Arkansas Ozarks, members of the deceased's community performed all of the jobs required for a burial. This was done to relieve the family but, in many places, taboos forbid their participation. This book documents death, burial and mourning customs in the Arkansas Ozarks for 1850 to 1950

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

393/.9309767

Index

index present

LC call number

GT3210.A75

LC item number

B87 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography