Kate Sweeney (2) (1978–)
Auteur de American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Kate Sweeney, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Kate Sweeney
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Sweeney, Kate Winternitz
- Autres noms
- Sweeney, Katherine
- Date de naissance
- 1978-04-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Études
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington (MFA|2009)
- Professions
- TV reporter
producer
teacher - Organisations
- WABE 90.1 FM (Atlanta)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 37
- Popularité
- #390,572
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 53
- Langues
- 2
In 2009, Kate Sweeney wrote a Master’s thesis at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The author has reworked the thesis and published it as American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning. She covers early burials (who knew what a cooling board was), cemeteries, funeral homes, roadside memorials, and green burials. She writes of a visit to the now defunct Museum of Funeral Customs, participates in a burial at sea, and interviews various people like a tattoo artist, a writer of obituaries, a memorial photographer, and several others. Changing ways of dealing with death are highlighted.
Since this work began as a thesis, it contains endnotes as well as a brief bibliography for further reading. Surprisingly, she does not include Jessica Mitford’s The American way of death in the bibliography, the book that brought the funeral industry into public notice. There are also a few illustrations included, but none on cooling boards. In my advanced reader’s copy, there was no index but one will be included in the final version of the book. It would have come in handy several times. The author was confused about the life of Queen Victoria when she was used as an example of mourning. Her husband was Prince Albert, whom she mourned the rest of her long life, not King Edward who was her eldest son.
Having read several very dry and uninteresting books that began as theses, I expected a densely written academic book. Instead this was an informal and highly interesting book about funeral customs written by a reporter for the NPR station in Atlanta. I can recommend this to anyone with an interest in the subject of mourning customs.… (plus d'informations)