Contemporary practices: Poland

Jaworski, E. 2008

‘Refiguring funeral rituals without the corpse: the case of Poland’, in M. Rotar & M. Sozzi (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in the 18th-21st Centuries Europe International Conference, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 89-99.

Kubiak, A. 2018

‘Civilised and wild heterotopia – the case of the Polish cemeteries’, Anthropological Researches and Studies, 8, 276-284.

Kubiak, A. 2016

Polish funerals: history and contemporary changes’, Anthropological Researches and Studies, 6, 33-42.

Kupisińsky, Z. 2020

‘Remembrance of the deceased in annual rituals in Poland’, Anthropos, 115:2, 527-534.

Lange, Ł. 2022

Can a dead body be sustainable in the XXI century? Polish attempts to be sustainable after death’, in R. McManus (ed.) Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable, Newcastle: Cambridge Publishing, 44-56.

Events

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