The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
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.
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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.
Lamba, P. 2019
‘Funeral swag: a celebration of death in Urban Zambia’, in O.Balogun, L. Gilman, M. Graboye & H. Iddrisu (eds) Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure and Expressive Culture on the Continent, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 39-48.
Pine, V. & Phillips, D. 1970
‘The cost of dying: a sociological analysis of funeral expenditures’, Social Problems, 17:3, 405-417.
