Consumerism

Buckham, S. 1999

“The men that worked for England they have their graves at home”: consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones, in S. Tarlow & S. West (eds.) The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain, London: Routledge. 199-214.

Cann, C. 2020

‘Buying an afterlife: mapping religious belief through consumer death goods’, in C. Cann (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife, London: Routledge, 377-392.

Clark, L. 1987

‘Gravestones: reflectors of ethnicity or class?’ in S. Spencer-Wood (ed.) Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology, Plenum Press, New York, 383-395.

Gabel, T,, Mansfield, P. & Westbrook, P. 1996

‘The disposal of consumers: an exporatory analysis of death-related consumption’, Advances in Consumer Research, 23, 361-367.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract