History: 19c Mexico

López, A. 2015

“An urgent need for hygiene” cremation, class, and public health in Mexico City, 1879–1920’, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 31:1, 88-124.

McCrea, H. 2007

‘On sacred ground: the Church and burial rites in nineteenth-century Yucatàan, Mexico’, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 23:1, 33-62.

Voekel, P. 2002

The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico: Alone Before God, Durham: Duke University Press.

Weber, J. 2019

Death is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Events

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