Cemeteries are often seen as monofunctional spaces for burial and mourning and, within
the dynamically changing urban fabric, as a planning conundrum. Long periods of stability …

Cemeteries garner considerable academic attention as anthropologists, landscapers,
archaeologists, sociologists, geographers and historians examine their layout, purpose and …

Natural burial (NB) is an ecologically-sensitive alternative to traditional burial in a lawn-park
cemetery. NB can reduce or eliminate the use of resources and toxic byproducts, but NB …

A new body of scholarship on death and loss has emerged as a sub-field within social and
cultural geography. This work has done much to draw geographers' attention to questions of …

CHURCHYARD AND CEMETERY: TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN RURAL NORTH
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Drawing upon resources from philosophy, sociology, history, and anthropology, this paper
explores the possibilities of attending to geographies on the other side of life. After an …

Abstract The Bois Marchand Cemetery in Mauritius was established in 1867 in response to
the massive death toll exerted by a disastrous malaria epidemic that swept the island …

In the context of a wider literature on 'deathscapes', we map the emergence of a new mode
of burial and remembrance in B ritain. Since a 'green'burial ground was established in C …

'The grave'is often taken as a symbolic representation of mortality itself–untold secrets are
generally taken 'to the grave'–and there can be little ambiguity with regard to the hole in the …

Death in the twentieth century is generally defined in terms of large-scale trajectories and
meta-narratives that are presumed to reflect changing attitudes towards mortality. In …