by Erin-Lee McGuire | 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-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...
