Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and PracticesUniversity of Illinois Press, 1994 - 247 pages In Death and Dying in Central Appalachia, James Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in the Appalachian sections of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, showing how they have changed since the 1600's. Relying on archival materials, almost forty photographs, and interviews with more than 400 mountain dwellers, Crissman focuses on the importance of familism and 'neighborliness' in mountain society. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 71
Page 17
... woman , women would be the caretakers . This does not seem to have been the case throughout the mountains . A death watch wasn't always a short - term affair . Participants didn't show up for one night and then desert the family and the ...
... woman , women would be the caretakers . This does not seem to have been the case throughout the mountains . A death watch wasn't always a short - term affair . Participants didn't show up for one night and then desert the family and the ...
Page 34
... Women , in most instances , made all of their own clothes , in- cluding those for burial . There were few circumstances , even through the 1930s , when a woman was buried in a store - bought dress . It was considered much easier to make ...
... Women , in most instances , made all of their own clothes , in- cluding those for burial . There were few circumstances , even through the 1930s , when a woman was buried in a store - bought dress . It was considered much easier to make ...
Page 151
... women went to the first cemetery especially established for Southern soldiers and dec- orated the graves with flowers . The actions of these Southern women in honoring the dead of both armies impressed people in the North and South . In ...
... women went to the first cemetery especially established for Southern soldiers and dec- orated the graves with flowers . The actions of these Southern women in honoring the dead of both armies impressed people in the North and South . In ...
Contents
Familism Neighborliness and the Death Watch | 9 |
Preparation of the Body | 22 |
Burial Receptacles and Grave Digging | 42 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices James K. Crissman Limited preview - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
afterdamp American Funeral Directing Appalachian Heritage ballads became Blue Sky Boys body Bradley Kincaid's Brothers burial receptacle buried Cades Cove Carter Family casket central Appalachia century ceremony Charles Guiteau church clothes coal dust coffin constructed corpse County cremation Death and Dying death watch deceased died early East Tennessee East Tennessee Dead elderly embalming explosion family cemetery family members flowers friends funeral director funeral home funeral service gathered Gilmer County grave markers graveyard ground Habenstein and Lamers hair headstones hearse heaven Hills History of American History of Thanatology Ibid interment interviews Kentucky Kincaid living loved methane miners mining minister mother moun mountain mourners mourning murder ballads neighborliness neighbors neral night North Carolina occasionally person photograph placed portrait preachers Press quilt reissued relatives sermon settlers singing social someone sometimes songs Southern Highlander tains Thanatology tion usually vaults Vernon Dalhart W.Va wake West Virginia woman York