Contemporary practices: Australia

Glaskin, K., Tonkinson, M., Musharbash, Y. & Burbank, V. (eds) 2008

Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practice in Indigenous Australia, Farnham: Ashgate.

Han, G-S, Forbes-Mewett, H, & and Yang Wang, W. 2018

‘My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne’, Mobilities 13:5, 761-775.

Lowe, J., Rumbold, B., and Aoun, S. 2019

‘Memorialization practices are changing: an industry perspective on improving service outcomes for the bereaved’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 84:2, 596-616.

Rainsford, S., Phillips, C., Macleod, R. and Wilson, D. 2019

‘Funeral and interment practices of rural residents: a mixed methods study’, Death Studies, 45:2, 101-109.

Rumbold, B., Lowe, J., and Aoun, S. 2021

The evolving landscape: funerals, cemeteries, memorialization and bereavement support’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 84:2, 596-616.

Events

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