The Secret Cemetery

ISBN-13: 9781859735978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str.

Doris Francis; Leonie Kellaher; Georgina Neophytu

Opis

Burial sites have long been recognized as windows onto past civilizations, yet the meanings of present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they can reveal much about ourselves. Through the process of choosing a memorial stone, inscribing it, and tending the grave garden, visitors fashion a dynamic personal landscape of memory and mourning. The contemporary cemetery is also a place where new immigrant communities can reinforce group boundaries and establish a sense of homeland. Exploring the memorial practices of people from Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Anglican faiths, as well as the "unchurched," this book shows how the material artifacts of mourning express sentiments that are shared, understood, and validated by members of the secret cemetery community.

Spis treści

Studying the Living in Cemeteries * The Dynamics of Cemetery Landscapes * Planting the Memory: the Cemetery in the First Year of Mourning * The Grave as Home and Garden * Remembering the Dead for the Long Term * Keeping Kin and Kinship Alive * Cemeteries as Ethnic Homelands * Change and Renewal in Historic Cemeteries

O autorze

Doris Francis is Research Associate, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Leonie Kellaher is Principal Research Officer and Director of the Centre for Environmental and Social Studies in Ageing, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of North London and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of North London. Georgina Neophytou is Research Assistant, University of North London and Consultant, Open University.