See also Diversity/Equity; Grief; Spirituality

Ashenburg, Katherine.  The Mourner's Dance:  What We Do When People Die.  North Point Press, 2002. GT3340 .A84 2003

Bagneris, Vernel.  Rejoice When You Die: The New Orleans Jazz Funerals.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1998. GT3211.N4 T68 1998

Barley, Nigel.  Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World.  NY: Henry Holt, 1997. GT3150 .B34 1997

Barrett, Ronald.  "Contemporary African-American funeral rites and traditions."  The Path Ahead:  Radings in Death and Dying.  ed. L. A. DeSpelder and A. L. Strickland.  Mayfield, 1995.  80-92.  BD444 .P37 1995

Colman, Penny.  Corpses, Coffins and Crypts:  A History of Burial.  1997.

Cronin, Xavier A.  Grave Exodus:  Tending to Our Dead in the 21st Century.  NY: Barricade, 1996. HD9999 .U54 U526 1996

D'Auria, Sue, Petr Lacovara and Catharine H. Roehrig.  Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt.  1992.  DT59.B6 M86 1992.

Dougy Center, The.  What About the Kids? Understanding Their Needs in Funeral Planning & Services.  1999.

Habenstein, Robert W. and William M. Lamers.  Funeral Customs the World Over.  Rev. ed. Milwaukee: Bulfin Printers, 1974.

Habenstein, Robert W. and William M. Lamers.  The History of American Funeral Directing.  Milwaukee: Bulfin Printers, Revised, 2001.

Howarth, Glennys.  Last Rites: The Work of the Modern Funeral Director.  Amityville, NY: Baywood, 1996.

Jackson, Kenneth J. and Camilo Jose Vegara.  Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery.  NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

Keister, Douglas.  Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity.  NY: Facts on File, 1997.

Laderman, Gary. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth Century America. 2003 HD999 .U53 U543 2003

Laderman, Gary.  Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883.  1996.  BR525 .L25 1996.

Lynch, Thomas.  The Undertaking:  Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.  NY: Norton, 1997. BD444 .L96 1997

Matlins, Stuart M. and Arthur J. Magida.  How To Be a Perfect Stranger.  The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook.  3rd ed. 2003.

Metcalf, Peter.  Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual.  1991.  GN486 .M48 1991.

Nichols, Elaine, ed.  The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions. 1890-Present.  Collumbia; South Carolina State Museum, 1989.

Prothero, Stephen.  Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.   GT3330 .P76 2000

Roach, Mary.  Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.  2003.

Robben, Antonius C. G. M., ed.  Death, Mourning and Burial:  A Cross-Cultural Reader.  2004.

Rogak, Lisa.  Death Warmed Over:  Funeral Food, Rituals and Customs from Around the World.  2004.

Szabo, John F. Mortuary Science: A Sourcebook.  1993.

Funeral and Memorial Societiesof America  http://www.funerals.org