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.

Snellman, H. 2019

‘Negotiating belonging through death among Finnish immigrants in Sweden’, in H. Snellman, E. Koskinen-Koivisto & S. Samaro (eds) Transnational Death, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 25–48.

Snyder-Reinke, J. 2016

‘Afterlives of the dead: uncovering graves and mishandling corpses in 19th century China’, Frontiers of History in China, 11:1, 1-20.

Snyder, E. 1995

‘Innocents in a worldly world: Victorian children’s gravemarkers’, in Meyer, R. (ed.) Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture, Utah State University Press: Logan, UT, 11-30.

Sobotka, S. & Długozima, A. 2015

‘Evaluation and development opportunities of the disused Lutheran cemeteries within the Maskuliński and Pisz Forest Divisions for thanotourism’, Tourism, 25: 1, 67-75.

Sodiya, A., Ibisola, A. & Fateye, T. 2021

‘Impact of cemetery on proximate residential property value’, Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management 14:1.

Sokolova, A. 2019

‘Soviet funeral services: from moral economy to social welfare and back’, Journal of Revolutionary Russia, 32:2, 251-271.

Soliman, A. 2015

‘Impact of cemeteries on the development of urban settlements in Egypt: the case of Minia and Kharga’, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 107-130.

Somotan, T. 2025

‘Contested burial grounds: African religious communities, urban displacement, and the spatial politics of difference in Colonial Lagos, Nigeria’, Journal of Social History, 58:3, 493-525.

Sørensen, T. 2009

‘The presence of the dead: cemeteries, cremation and the staging of non-place’, Journal of Social Archaeology, 9, 1, 111-135.

Sørensen, T. 2010

‘A saturated void: anticipating and preparing presence in contemporary Danish cemetery culture’, in M. Bille, F. Hastrup & T. Sørensen (eds) An Anthropology of Absence: Materializions of Transcendence and Loss, Cham: Springer, 115-30.

Sørensen, T. 2011

‘Sweet dreams: biographical blanks and the commemoration of children’, Mortality, 16:2, 161-175.

Sørensen, T. & M. Bille 2008

‘Flames of transformation: the role of fire in cremation practices’, World Archaeology, 40:2, 253-267.

Soria Batista, A., & Codo, W. 2018

‘Dirty work and stigma. caretakers of death in cemeteries’, Revista de Estudios Sociales, 63, 72-83.

Sörries, R. 2009

Ruhe Sanft: Kulturgeschichte des Friedhofs, Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker.

Sörries, R. 2005

‘Der weite Weg zum Friedhof – Entwicklung der Friedhofskultur seit 1800’, in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 8-10.

Sörries, R. 2013

‘Humans: their mourning, needs, conceptions’, in E. Venbrux, T. Quartier, C. Venhost and B. Mathijssen (eds) Changing European Deathways, Wien: Lit Verlag, 13-23.

Events

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