The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Consumers and consumerism
Buckham, S. 1999
“The men that worked for England they have their graves at home”: consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones, in S. Tarlow & S. West (eds.) The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain, London: Routledge. 199-214.
Cann, C. 2020
‘Buying an afterlife: mapping religious belief through consumer death goods’, in C. Cann (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife, London: Routledge, 377-392.
Clark, L. 1987
‘Gravestones: reflectors of ethnicity or class?’ in S. Spencer-Wood (ed.) Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology, Plenum Press, New York, 383-395.
Drennan, W. 2022
‘Restricting funeral expense deductions’, PennState Law Review, 126:2, 429-474.
Gabel, T,, Mansfield, P. & Westbrook, P. 1996
‘The disposal of consumers: an exporatory analysis of death-related consumption’, Advances in Consumer Research, 23, 361-367.
Hüwelmeier, G. 2016
‘Cell phones for the spirits: ancestor worship and ritual economies in Vietnam and its diasporas’, Material Religion, 12:3, 294-321.
Lamba, P. 2019
‘Funeral swag: a celebration of death in Urban Zambia’, in O.Balogun, L. Gilman, M. Graboye & H. Iddrisu (eds) Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure and Expressive Culture on the Continent, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 39-48.
Trompette, P. 2007
‘Customer channelling arrangements in market organization: competition dynamics in the funeral business in France’, Revue Française de Sociologie 48, Supp, 3-33.
Valentine, D. 2024
‘Corpses, clients and commodification in the natural burial marketplace’ in J. Hogan & S. Whetstone (eds) Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies, London: Routledge, 324-339.
