The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Religion: Syncretism
Chesney, W. 2024
‘Preparation rituals of the departed: the case of Guyana’, in C. Huggins, A.M. Bissessar & G.M. Hinkson (eds) (2024) Post-colonial Burial and Grieving Rituals of the Caribbean, Springer, 129-144.
Denbow, J. 1999
‘Heart and soul: glimpses of ideology and cosmology in the iconography of tombstones from the Loango Coast of Central Africa’, Journal of American Folklore, 112:445, 404–23.
Mungal-Bissessar, V. 2024
‘Funeral and burial practices of Spiritual Baptists in Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent’, in C. Huggins, A.M. Bissessar, & G.M. Hinkson, G.M. (eds) Post-colonial Burial and Grieving Rituals of the Caribbean, Cham: Springer, 25-38.
Spijker, G. 2005
‘The role of social anthropology in the debate on funeral rites in Africa’, Exchange, 34:3, 156-176.
