Cultural commentary

Ariès, P. 1995

Images of Man and Death, Havard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

McManus, R. 2013

Death in a Global Age, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Sloane, D. 2018

Is the Cemetery Dead? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sloane, D. 2021

‘Nature versus culture: shifting values in American cemeteries’, in K. Rothstein & C. Staudt (eds) The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, 119-142.

Walter, T. 1994

The Revival of Death, London: Routledge.

Events

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