Sheppard-Simms, E. & Simon, K. 2015

‘The institution of perpetual memory: the typology of the cemetery and the generative potential of renewable tenure’, in P. Hogben & J. O’Callaghan (eds) Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 32, Architecture, Institutions and Change, 603-615.

Keywords

Shevlock, M., Kinsella, E. & Harris, D. 2021

‘Beyond the corporatization of death systems: towards green death practices’, Illness, Crisis and Loss, 30:4, 640-658.

Shih, F-L. 2010

Chinese “bad death” practices in Taiwan: maidens and modernity’, Mortality, 15:2, 122-137.

Shimane, K. 2018

‘Social bonds with the dead: how funerals transformed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373: 20170274.

Shimane, K. 2014

‘The experience of death in Japan’s urban societies’, in N. Aveline-Dubach (ed.) Invisible Population: The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Plymouth: Lexington Books, 29-49.

Shipton, P. 2009

Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa, New Haven CT: Yale University Press.

Shofstall, G. 2010

‘Freeze, wait, reanimate: cryonic suspension and science fiction’, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 30:4, 285-297.

Keywords

Short, H., Crispin, J. and Baker, D. 2017

Short, H., Crispin, J. and Baker, D. (2017) ‘Digital humanities, cultural heritage and social justice: the case of a destroyed Armenian cemetery’, in Digital Heritage.

Shute, J. 2015

‘Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence’, in J-M Dreyfus & É Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 81-105.

Sikakulya, F., Ilumbulumbu M., Djuma S. & 3 others 2021

‘Safe and dignified burial of a deceased from a highly contagious infectious disease ebolavirus: socio-cultural and anthropological implications in the Eastern DR Congo’, One Health, 13:100309.

Keywords

Silva-Bessa, A., Madureira-Carvahlo, Á., Dawson, L. & 3 others 2022

‘The importance of soil on human taphonomy and management of Portuguese public cemeteries’, Forensic Sciences, 2, 635-649.

Silverman, H. 2002

‘Narratives of identity and history in modern cemeteries of Lima, Peru’, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11:1, 167-190.

Silverman, H. 2002

Introduction: The Space and Place of Death’, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11: 1-11.

Keywords

Singh, R. 2022

Dead in Banaras: An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Singh, R. 2015

‘Modes of processing the dead: ethnography of crematoria’, Society and Culture in South Asia, 1:1, 33-55.

Siu, K 2005

‘Culture and design: a new burial concept in a densely populated metropolitan area’, Design Issues, 21, 2, 79-89.

Skår, M., Nordh, H. & Swensen, G. 2018

‘Green urban cemeteries: more than just parks’, Journal of Urbanism, 11:3, 362-82.

Keywords

Skosana. D. 2021

‘Grave matters: dispossession and the desecration of ancestral graves by mining corporations in South Africa’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 40:1, 1-16.

Skosana. D. 2021

‘Mining, graves sites and dispossession in Mpumalanga’’, in W. Beinart, R. Kingwill & G. Capps (eds) Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 104-120.

Events

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