Gone to the Grave [electronic resource] : Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 / Abby Burnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Abby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial--Social aspects--Ozark Mountains--History.

Burial.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Ozark Mountains--History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Burial--Social aspects--Arkansas--History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Arkansas--History.

Ozark Mountains--Social life and customs.

Ozark Mountains.

Arkansas--Social life and customs.

Arkansas.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Keeping death at bay

Sitting up with the sick and dying

Laying out the body

Sitting up with the body

Coffins and caskets

Notification, transportation, and farewell

Creating graves and graveyards

Marking the graves

Funerals and decoration day

Childbirth, children, and death

Disenfranchised death

Early undertaking.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62674-062-3

OCLC:

878301195