The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Anthropology
Anstett, É. 2018
‘What is a mass grave? toward an anthropology of human remains treatment in contemporary contexts of mass violence’, in A. Robben (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 175-188.
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Bendann, E. 1930
Death Customs: an Analytical Study of Burial Rites, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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Bloch, M. & Parry, J. 1982
‘Introduction: death and the regeneration of life’ in M. Bloch and J. Parry (eds) Death and the Regeneration of Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-44.
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Davies, D. 1996
‘The sacred crematorium’, Mortality, 1:1, 83-94.
Engelke, M. 2019
‘The anthropology of the dead revisited’, Annual Review of Anthropology, 48: 29-44.
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Fontein, J. 2011
‘Graves, ruins, and belonging: towards an anthropology of proximity’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17, 706–27.
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Huntingdon, R. & Metcalf, P. 1991
Celebrations of Death: the Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Robben, A. 2018
‘An anthropology of death for the twenty-first century’, in A. Robben (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, xv-xl.
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Robben, A. 2004
‘Death and anthropology: an introduction’ in A. Robben (ed.) Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1-16.
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Wojtkowiak, J. & Mathijssen, B. 2022
‘Birth and death: studying ritual, embodied practices and spirituality at the start and end of life’, Religions, 13:9, 820.
