The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Ramlakhan, P. 2020
‘The politics of death and mortuary ritual in Trinidadian Hinduism’, in C. Cann (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife, London: Routledge, 96-109.
Ranaerts, M. 1997
‘La mort: de l’exclusion à l’intégration’, in F. Dassetto (ed.) Facettes de L’Islam Belge, Louvain-La-Neuve : Académia-Bruylant, 213-223.
Randeria, S. 1989
‘Carrion and corpses: conflict in categorizing untouchability in Gujarat’, European Journal of Sociology, 30, 171-91.
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Ranger, T. 2004
‘Dignifying death: the politics of burial in Bulawayo’, Journal of Religion in Africa, 34, 110–44.
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Rangiwai, B. 2022
‘The impacts on tikanga of the Hindu practice of scattering human ashes into waterways compared with the practice of disposing of blood via the wastewater system as part of the arterial embalming process’, Te Kaharoa, 13:1, 1-14.
Rasam, A., Mazland, A., Rodi, W. & 4 others 2013
‘GIS-based Muslim cemetery information system’, 2013 IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC), 364-368.
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Rashid, S. 2019
‘Meaning and rituals of death: an insight into selected ethnic and religious communities of Bangladesh’, Vietnam Social Sciences, 5:193, 75-92.
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Raudon, S. 2022
‘Huddled masses: the shock of Hart Island, New York’, Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8:1, 84-101.
Rawnsley, S. & Reynolds, J. 1977
Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford’, History Workshop, 4, 215-221.
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Razavimaleki, B. & Martinez, H. 2014
‘Negotiating an Islamic burial’, Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, 2:2.
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Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2012
‘Inhumation and cremation: how burial practices are linked to beliefs’, in M. Sørensen & K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Technology and Belief, Oxford: Oxbow, 15-26.
Reesink, M., Martins, A. & Greganich, J. 2025
‘Double funerals. when death finds the dead in transnational contexts’, Anthropos, 119:2, 513-526.
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Reeve, J. & Adams, M. 1993
The Spitalfields Project: vol 1 – the Archaeology. Across the Styx, York: Council for British Archaeology.
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Rehlinghaus, F. 2014
‘The reinvention of Protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany’, in C. Rotar, M. Rotar & A. Teodorescu (eds) Dying and Death in the 18th-21st Century, Volume 2, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 112-136.
Reiffenstein, T. & Selig, N. 2013
‘Shifting monument production chains and the implications for gravestone design on Prince Edward Island, 1820-2005’, Journal of Cultural Geography, 30:2, 160-186.
Reilly, M., Whiting, B., & Greenidge, N. 2025
“Their veneration for every thing connected with the grave”: evidence of an Afro-Barbadian burial ground at Society Plantation, Barbados, West Indies’, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 14:1, 1–23.
Reimers, E. 1999
‘Death and identity: graves and funerals as cultural communication’, Mortality, 4, 2, 147-66.
Reis, J. 1992
‘“Death to the cemetery”. Funerary reform and rebellion in Brazil, 1836’, History Workshop Journal, 34, 33-46.
Reis, J. trans H. Gledhill 2003
Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Chapel Hill: University of California Press.
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Ren, Y. & Woudstra, J. 2021
‘Reviving traditional burial rituals with feng shui: changing landscapes in China’, Mortality, 26:1, 83-99.
