The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Nigeria
Boge, F. 2023
‘Iwolefu funeral insurance and the socioeconomics of burial ceremony in Ikorodu area of Lagos state’, Yoruba Studies Review, 8:1, 183-203.
Daramola, O. 2019
‘Environmental sanitation implication of the disposal of the dead: a tale of two traditional African cities’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 21:2, 727-744.
Daramola, O. 2017
‘Polluting till death and beyond: A perception study of the disposal of the dead in a traditional African city’, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 28:3, 400-413.
Daramola, O., Ojo, A., & Joel, S. 2014
‘Environmental sanitation perception and practices of the disposal of the dead in the Ile-Ife City, Nigeria’, International Journal of Academic Research in Environment and Geography, 3:1, 15 36.
Douglas, K. 2013
‘The current state of public cemeteries in Rivers State, Nigeria’, Nigerian Health Journal, 13:1, 58-61.
Izunwa, M. 2016
‘Customary rights to a befitting burial: a jurisprudential appraisal of four Nigerian cultures’, Ogirisi: A New Journal of African Studies, 12, 122–145
Krydz Ikwuemesi, C. 2023
‘Celebrating tragedy: dying, death and mortuary arts among the Igbo’, Mortality, 28:1, 126-153.
Krydz Ikwuemesi, C. & Onwuegbuna, I. 2017
‘Creativity in calamity: Igbo funeral as interface of visuality and performance’ Continuum, 32:2, 184-200.
Ogunbemi, A., Akinbade, H. , Omunagbe, A. & King, O. 2020
‘Property value of houses with cemeteries, its psychological and health impact at Lagelu local government, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria’, National Journal of Advanced Research, 6:2, 28-32.
Smith, D. 2004
‘Burials and belonging in Nigeria: rural/urban relations and social inequality in a contemporary African ritual’, American Anthropologist, 106:3, 569-79.
Smith, D. 2018
‘Migration, death and conspicuous redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria’, in A. C. G. M. Robben (ed.) (2018) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 71-83.
Ugwu, S. and Nwankwo, B.E. 2020
Modern funeral rites during COVID-19 pandemic’, Nigerian Journal of Social Psychology 3.1.
