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MXC Mortuary Science 111

History of Funeral Service

About this Class

Survey of current expectations in American Funeral Practice with emphasis on task and personality of the practitioner.  Trends and issues in embalming practice from ancient Egyptian burial rites to current American practices and foreign procedures.

A-Z Databases and Library Catalog

Search Thesaurus

Mix and match these (and add your own) in any Database or eBook Library Advanced Search

Funeral

Wake

Embalming/Embalmer
Rites

Ritual

Mourning

Burial

Necropoetics

Memorialization

Internment

Necropolitics

Commemoration

Undertaking/Undertaker

Bereavement

Mausoleum

Traditions

Death

Tomb
Ceremonies Spiritualism Seance/Spiritualism
Myths/Folklore/Fairy-Tales History/Anthropology/Sociology

Grief/Grieving 

Boolean Operators are simple words (AND, OR, NOT or AND NOT) used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a search, resulting in more focused and productive results.  Using these operators can greatly reduce or expand the number of records returned.

i.e.  Funeral OR Wake AND Rites AND Sociology NOT History

Boolean operators are useful in saving time by focusing searches for more 'on-target' results that are more appropriate to your needs and by limiting those results that are inappropriate.

Each search engine or database collection uses Boolean operators in a slightly different way or may require the operator be typed in capitals or have special punctuation. The specific phrasing will be found in either the guide to the specific database found in Research Resources or the search engine's help screens.

AND - requires both terms to be in each item returned. If one term is contained in the document and the other is not, the item is not included in the resulting list. (Narrows the search)

OR - either term (or both) will be in the returned document. (Broadens the search) 

NOT or AND NOT - the first term is searched, then any records containing the term after the operators are subtracted from the results (Narrows the search further. Use caution as this may remove valid search results).

Suggested Historical Newspapers

Suggested General Databases

Required Text Book

e-Books

Additional eBooks can be found here: