Preserved
A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
$81.94
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2024
Summary
A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities.
Funeral homes—those grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their family—are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421448404 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1421448408 |
| Author: | Dean G. Lampros |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 658g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Having just lived among the funeral directors and the nuns, I drank these words like a tonic.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine
Lampros’s meticulous research never presents as dry but rather invigorates America’s way of life (and death) via the previously overlooked institution of the funeral home as “American funeral directors truly were—and in many ways still are—the unsung heroes of historic preservation.”
—Amerikastudien / American Studies
Dean G. Lampros
Dean G. Lampros is a historian of the built environment, consumer culture, and identity construction. He teaches cultural history and American studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Roger Williams University.
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