The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Iran
BayatRizi, Z. & Ghorbani, H. 2019
‘The bureaucratic professionalization of funeral rites in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery’, in H. Selin & R. Rakoff (eds) Death across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, Cham: Springer, 103-118.
BayatRizi, Z. & Tehrani, R. 2017
‘The objective life of death in Tehran: a vanishing presence’, Mortality, 22:1, 15-32.
Ghorbani, H. (ed.) 2021
Social Studies of Death: Death in Iranian Culture and Society, Anthropology: Tehran [in Persian]
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Salimi, M. & Ruhani, A. 2023
‘Nobody likes the forgotten guardians of the departed: a critical ethnographic study on social isolation of ghassals’, Omega – Journal of Death and Dying, DOI.
