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Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press.

Weber, J. 2019

Death is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Weber, U. 2021

‘Funeral reforms in Taiwan: insights on change from a discourse analytic perspective’, in Y. Berraine, A. Derks, A. Kreil & D. Lüddeckens (eds)  Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change, 257-276.

Webersinke, S. 2005

‘Gartendenkmaplflegerische Schutzguterfassung auf historischen Friedhöf in Dresden’, in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 224-33.

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Webster, L. 2018

‘Why caring for our own dead is an act of social justice’, Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 8:1, 125-148.

Webster, L. 2021

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Wedeł-Domardzka, A. 2022

‘On the need to protect cemeteries and memorials in Europe the perspective of the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and Hungarian and Polish regulations’, Central European Journal of Comparative Law, 3:2, 201-206.

Wedeł-Domardzka, A. 2020

‘Postmortal issues of Smolensk tragedy against the obligations of Art. 2 of European Convention on Human Rights’, Law and Administration in Post-Soviet Europe, 7:1, 1-10.

Weeks, J. 2014

‘Cemeteries and funeral practice’, in M.Millett, L. Revell and A. Moore (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain, Oxford: Oxford Handbooks Online.

Weingrod, A. 2006

‘Bones in, bones out: political reburials and Israeli nationalism’, Global Bioethics, 19:1, 45–54.

Weiss-Krejci, E. 2016

‘“Tomb to give away”’: the significance of graves and dead bodies in present-day Austria’, in H. Williams and M. Giles (eds) Archaeologists and the Dead, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 345-366.

Welch, C. 2025

‘Exploring the creation, use and transformation of the West Hill Cemetery, Winchester, UK’, in D. Liutikas (ed.) Creating the Sacred Landscape: Pilgrimage and Ritual Practices, Cham: Springer Nature, 165-180.

Wells, G. and Bishop, B. 2005

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Wendling, M. 2025

‘Death and burial in late medieval women’s houses’, Mortality, 30:1, 287-305.

Wenzel, M. 2015

‘Path dependence and the stabilization of strategic premises: how the funeral industry buries itself’, Business Research, 8: 265-299.

Wenzel, M., Wagner, H. & Koch, J. 2017

‘The funeral industry and the internet: on the historical emergence and destabilization of strategic paths’, European Journal of Information Systems, 26, 361-378.

Westendorp M. & Gould H. 2021

‘Re-feminizing death: gender, spirituality and death care in the Anthropocene’, Religions,12: 8, 667.

Westendorp, M. 2018

‘Individual expressions of familial rituals: Buddhist and Anglican ways of paying respect to ancestors in contemporary Hong Kong’, Journal of Ritual Studies, 32:2, 43-54.

Westendorp, M. & Kmec, S. 2023

‘Cemeteries as translocal contact zones: navigating regulations, unwritten rules and divergent expectations in Luxembourg City’, in A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Uteng, & M. Westendorp, (eds) Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries, Cham: Springer, 43-64.

Westerhof, D. 2008

Death and the Noble Body in Medieval England, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.

Events

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