Anthropology: Nigeria

Krydz Ikwuemesi, C. 2023

‘Celebrating tragedy: dying, death and mortuary arts among the Igbo’, Mortality, 28:1, 126-153.

Krydz Ikwuemesi, C. & Onwuegbuna, I. 2017

‘Creativity in calamity: Igbo funeral as interface of visuality and performance’ Continuum, 32:2, 184-200.

Smith, D. 2004

‘Burials and belonging in Nigeria: rural/urban relations and social inequality in a contemporary African ritual’, American Anthropologist, 106:3, 569-79.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract