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Abney Park
Abney Park Cemetery
Anglo-Jewish Community
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Author_Georgina Neophytou
Author_Leonie Kellaher
Burial Grounds
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Cemetery Design
Cemetery Landscape
cemetery landscapes
Cemetery Management
Cemetery Visitors
contemporary cemetery ethnography
cross-cultural mourning
death ritual studies
Deceased Kin
Disused Burial Grounds
English's cemetery
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ethnographic cemetery research
Grave Owners
Grave Plot
Greek Cypriot
Greek Orthodox
Historic Cemetery
Holy Men
Jewish's cemetery
kinship and memory
London Cemetery
Marital Continuity
Memorial Garden
Memorial Stone
memorialisation practices
Park Cemetery
Private Grave
religious burial traditions
United Synagogue
Woodland Burial
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859735923
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Burial sites have long been recognized as a way to understand past civilizations. Yet, the meanings of our present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they reveal much about our cultures. Exploring an extraordinarily diverse range of memorial practice - Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Anglican, as well as the unchurched - The Secret Cemetery is an intriguing study of what these places of death mean to the living. Most of us experience cemeteries at a ritualized moment of loss. What we forget is that these are often places to which we return either as a general space in which to contemplate or as a specific site to be tended. These are also places where different communities can reinforce boundaries and even recreate a sense of homeland. Over time, ritual, artefact and place shape an intensely personal landscape of memory and mourning, a landscape more alive, more actively engaged with than many of the other places we inhabit.
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.
