The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Funeral industry: United States
Olson, P. 2016
‘Custody of the corpse: controlling alkaline hydrolysis in US death care markets’, in S. Dobscha (ed.) Death in a Consumer Culture, London: Routledge, 75-88.
Olson, P. 2014
‘Flush and bone: funeralizing alkaline hydrolysis in the United States’, Science, Technology and Human Values, 39:5, 666-693.
Prothero, S. 2001
Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Rotundo, B. 1992
‘Monumental Bronze: in R. Meyer (ed) Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture, Logan: Utah State University Press, 263-292.
Sanders, G. 2010
‘The dismal trade as culture industry’, Poetics, 38:1, 47-68.
Sanders, G. 2009
‘“Late” capitalism: amusement and contradiction in the contemporary funeral industry’, Critical Sociology, 35:4, 447-470.
Sanders, G. 2012
‘Branding in the American funeral industry’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 12:3, 263-282.
Smith, J. 2017
The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America, Lanham: Lexington Books.
Smith, S. 2010
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death, Cambridge: Mass, Havard University Press.
Veit, R. 2009
“Resolved to strike out a new path”: consumerism and iconographic change in New Jersey gravestones’, Historical Archaeology, 43: 1, 115-41.
Webster, L. 2018
‘Why caring for our own dead is an act of social justice’, Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 8:1, 125-148.
Whitten, D. 2001
‘Mortuary mergers and the internationalization of interment’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 19, 225-234.
Williams, S.L. 2023
‘Death can not make our souls afraid: Mosaic Templars of America Zephroes in Macon County, Alabama, 1887-1931’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 113-148.
Wueshner, S. 2001
‘One man’s demise is another man’s gain: the growth of the funeral industry on the Iowa frontier’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 19, 245-251.
Zelinsky, W. 1976
‘Unearthly delights: cemetery names and the map of the changing American afterworld’, in D. Lowenthal and M. Bowden (eds) Geographies of the Mind, New York: Oxford University Press.
