The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Singapore
Gao, Q., Woods, O. & Kong, L. 2023
‘The political ecology of death: Chinese religion and the affective tensions of secularised burial rituals in Singapore’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6:1, 537-555.
Toulson, R. 2013
The meanings of red envelopes: promises and lies at a Singaporean Chinese funeral’, Journal of Material Culture, 18:2, 155–169.
Toulson, R. 2018
Fragments of bone and chips of stone: materiality and mourning in a Chinese society’, in R.E. Toulson & Z. Newby (eds) The Materality of Mourning, London: Routledge, 191-204.
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Toulson, R. 2024
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore, Seattle: University of Washington Press.
