Skosana. D. 2017

‘Protecting the dead: the South African National Heritage Resources Act in context’, in M. Christian Green, R. Hackett, L. Hansen & F. Venter (eds) Religious Pluralism, Heritage and Social Development, Stellenbosch: Sun MeDIA, 315-331.

Slabbert, M. 2016

‘Burial or cremation – who decides?’, De Jure Law Journal, 49:2, 230-241.

Slabbert, M. 2020

‘The law and an ancestral request for exhumation’, Obiter, 41:4, 926-933.

Slabbert, M., & Labuschaigne, M. 2021

‘Aquamation: legal nail in burial and cremation’s coffin?’, De Jure Law Journal, 54:1, 359-369.

Sliverman, H. 2008

The space and place of death’, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11:1, 1-11.

Sloane, D. 1995

The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History, Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.

Sloane, D. 2018

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

Sloane, D. 2001

‘Selling eternity in 1920s Los Angeles’, in T. Sitton & W. Deverell (eds) Metropolis in the Making – Los Angeles in thev 1920s, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 341-360.

Slominski, E. 2023

‘Life of the death system: shifting regimes, evolving practices, and the rise of eco-funerals’, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19:1, 2243779.

Smith, A. & Minor, E. 2019

‘Chicago’s urban cemeteries as habitats for cavity-nesting birds’, Sustainability, 11, 3258.

Keywords

Smith, D. 1987

‘“Safe in the arms of Jesus”: consolation on Deleware children’s gravestones, 1840-44’, Markers, 4, 85-106.

Smith, D. 2015

‘Taking care of business: Canadian community mausoleums and the commercialization of death, 1912-1936’, Markers, 31, 30-51.

Smith, D. 2004

‘Burials and belonging in Nigeria: rural/urban relations and social inequality in a contemporary African ritual’, American Anthropologist, 106:3, 569-79.

Smith, D. 2018

‘Migration, death and conspicuous redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria’, in A. C. G. M. Robben (ed.) (2018) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 71-83.

Smith, J. 2017

The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America, Lanham: Lexington Books.

Smith, M. 2009

‘The Church of Scotland and the funeral industry in nineteenth-century Edinburgh’, Scottish Historical Review, 88:1, 108-133.

Smith, S. 2010

To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death, Cambridge: Mass, Havard University Press.

Snell, K. 2012

‘Churchyard closures, rural cemeteries and the village community in Leicestershire and Rutland, 1800-2010’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 63: 4, 721-757.

Snell, K. 2002

‘Gravestones, belonging and local attachment in England, 1700-2000′, Past and Present, 179, 97-134.

Snell, K. Jones, R. 2018

‘Churchyard memorials, “dispensing with God gradually”: rustication, decline of the gothic and emergence of art deco in the British Isles’, Rural History, 29:1, 45-80.

Events

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