The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: South Africa
Bähre, C. 2007
‘Reluctant solidarity: death, urban poverty and neighbourly assistance in South Africa’, Ethnography, 8:1, 33-59.
Case, A., Garrib, A., Menendez, A. & Olgiati, A. 2013
‘Paying the piper: the high cost of funerals in South Africa’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 61:1, 1-20.
Lee, R. 2011
‘“On the move”: funerals, entrepreneurs and the rural-urban nexus in South Africa’, Africa, 81:2, 226-247.
Martin, J., van Wijk, C. & Hans-Arendse, C. 2013
‘“Missing in action”: the significance of bodies in African bereavement rituals’, Psychology in Society, 44, 42-63.
Molyneux, C. 2001
‘Changing attitudes to funeral customs in the new South Africa’, Mortality, 6:2, 125-126.
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Ngubane S. 2012
‘Death and burial practices in contemporary Zulu culture’, Mankind Quarterly, 53:1, 91–109.
