by Erin | May 11, 2016 | Blog
Starting with a wee note from Erin: I’ve asked the students to write blog posts again. While some will post their own, I will also post a few of them on behalf of the students. This first post comes from Ally, who wrote about the first day of our course. Walking...
by Erin | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog
It’s almost time for our second season at the cemetery. This year, we thought we might make things interesting by opening up the course to students from other institutions. So… Dr Erin McGuire would like to invite interested students to apply to UVic Anth...
by Erin | Jun 13, 2015 | Blog
A brief review of: Reimers, Eva (1999) Death and Identity: Graves and Funerals as Cultural Communication. Mortality 4(2): 147–166. By looking at a multicultural cemetery in Sweden, Reimers looks at the connection between immigration and the preservation of culture....
by Erin | 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 | 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...
