The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Natural burial Japan
Boret, S. 2017
‘Agency and the personalization of the grave in Japan’, in S.P. Boret, S.O. Long and S. Kan (eds) Death in the Early 21st Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites, Palgrave Macmillan, 217-254.
Boret, S. 2012
‘An anthropological study of a Japanese tree burial: environment, kinship and death’, in H. Suzuki (ed.) Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan, London: Routledge, 177-201.
Boret, S. 2014
Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death, Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.
