Abstract
This article illustrates the importance and significant consequences of occupations' rhetorical work by examining the past and current rhetoric of North American funeral direction. The author reconstructs an occupational genealogy of funeral direction and then examine funeral directors' current rhetorical dilemmas in light of that historical legacy by drawing upon empirical materials collected during participant observation in a mortuary science program at a community college.
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