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FUNERAL CUSTOMS THE WORLD OVER (973 pp.)-Robert Habenstein and William Lamers-Bulfin Printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Other Half Dies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...Sociologist Robert Habenstein and Historian William Lamers have attempted to describe for U.S. readers how the other half dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Other Half Dies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...HISTORY OF AMERICAN FUNERAL DIRECTING (636 pp.)-Robert W. Habenstein & William M. Lamers-Bulfin Printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death, American Plan | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...true, as Mark Twain once remarked, that a community can be known by the funerals it holds, then The History of American Funeral Directing, by Sociologist Robert W. Habenstein and Historian William M. Lamers, may reveal more about America than many Americans want to know. Though the style of the authors is as dry as Aristotle's ashes, their history of the social, commercial, sanitary, sexual, artistic and religious relations between the living and the dead has a great and gruesome fascination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death, American Plan | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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