by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 24, 2015 | Blog
Fishbane, S. (1989) Jewish Mourning Rites – A Process of Resocialization, Anthropologica, 31:1 Illustrated with fieldwork involving members of an Orthodox Jewish Congregation in North America, Fishbane investigates both the historical development of funerary...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 21, 2015 | Blog
Williams, Howard. “Archaeologists on contemporary death.” Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying 16 no. 2 (2011): 91-97. In this short article, Howard Williams looks at the different ways in which archaeologists not only study...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 21, 2015 | Blog
Sometimes, it can be hard to see how academic writing connects to real life situations. I’ve asked each of the field workers to pick an academic article that might be relevant to the work we are doing, and to write a short, plain English, synopsis. Then they...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 20, 2015 | Blog
I got to the cemetery early to get set-up and thankfully a handful of students arrived shortly after I did. Between us, we unloaded my car quickly and pulled the gear together. My husband had picked up a sunshade for us and I’ve never seen one go up so quickly...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 19, 2015 | Blog
Today is our first day at the cemetery, but it’s most definitely not the first day of the project. You could argue that the first day of the project was last week, when the class met for the first time, but that wouldn’t be right either. Indeed, this has...
