The overarching theme of the book is differential treatment in death, which is examined at the site-specific, settlement, regional and national level. More specifically, the symbolism of conversion-period grave good deposition, the impact of the church, and aspects of identity, burial diversity and biocultural approaches to cemetery analysis are discussed.

Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Forensic Science, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (Proquest, viewed on Aug. 11, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63).

Exegesis (BA (Hons)--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print ( 61 leaves : ill. ; 21 x 30 cm + 1 DVD-ROM) in City Campus Theses Collection (T 730.92 RYO)

The presented study is to a degree a continuation to the author's bachelor thesis: Occurrence of Lepidoptera order within the district of Pelhrimov. This study is now focusing on the evaluation of research on moths found in five cemeteries located within this district during the year 2014. The area of interest is located in the south of the Czech republic, in the Region Vysocina. Measured from an entomological point of view, it is a cooler region with a lower diversity of the Lepidoptera order. Cemeteries in general represent very interesting localities well suited for entomological research, which has not been so far sufficiently recognized by members of the entomological academic community, but may represent a refugium in otherwise uniform landscape. During my research I recorded altogether 130 moth species during the period in question. The location number 5 (Cemetery in Cetoraz) has been evaluated as the one with the highest species richness, reaching documented occurrence of 63 species of the order Lepidoptera.

Recent reports reveal that a centuries-long trend in mortality has reversed, with post-1980 rural populations now being vulnerable to higher death rates than urban areas (Cossman et al. 2010). Scholars have also documented a post-1980 “return migration” of urban African Americans returning to rural regions (Stack 1996, Falk et al. 2004). The purpose of this research was: 1) to determine if the high urban mortality from 1900 to 1979 is related to the mass migration of rural African Americans to northern cities; 2) to discern if the high rural mortality post-1980 is related to the return migration of African Americans to southern rural regions; and 3) to test whether or not holistic and interdisciplinary research which incorporates the Racial Context of Origins will reveal discrepancies when compared to life table analyses. While the post-1980 “return migration” of urban African Americans to rural regions is of interest to scholars, the lack of death data needed to study them is often non-existent, often resulting in the exclusion of these marginalized populations from research (Sattenspiel and Stoops 2010:7). In order to test the above hypotheses, a replicable methodology that incorporates Read and Emerson’s (2005) call for the incorporation of a new theoretical concept in data collection and analysis, the Racial Context of Origins, was formulated in order to extract mortality data from these and other minority populations when archival data seemingly does not exist. Relying upon a fusion of biological and cultural anthropology and genealogical methods, this study’s main objectives were: 1) to collect vital statistics from and reconstruct three cemeteries that represent rural, semi-rural, and urban African American populations from 1880-2010 in order to document the mortality profiles through the use of life table analyses; 2) to compile narrative genealogies and migration histories through various archival records, integrating the Racial Context of Origins, by focusing on a semi-rural cemetery which represents a spectrum of both rural and urban lifestyles; and 3) to compare and contrast the statistical mortality profiles with the narrative genealogies and histories. The rural and semi-rural cemetery’s reconstructed burial registers resulted in 122 narrative genealogies that collectively revealed a migratory pattern where the rural and semi-rural populations in Missouri moved to urban cities prior to 1980, later returning to rural areas post-1980, findings confirmed by the life tables. Although only a single ethnic group was studied, the results indicated that post-1980 high rural mortality was at least in part affected by African American migration. Incorporating a methodology that included the Racial Context of Origins to reconstruct records from which to extract data provided more, and better, data with which to work. The methodology used to reconstruct archival records increased the sample size by 85%. As a result, there were no discrepancies in the life tables because those data were extracted from the reconstructed records.

The gravemarkers of the Aurora Colony Cemetery offer a means of examining identity and change within this early Oregon utopian community. Led by charismatic Wilhelm Keil and composed predominantly of people of German heritage, the members of the Aurora Colony sought to distance themselves from worldly influences through emigration to the Willamette Valley. In existence from 1856 to 1883, they sought to maintain shared cultural practices while, as farmers and artisans, relying simultaneously upon inclusive commerce with the outside world. Contextual analysis of this mortuaryscape provides a venue for understanding the interplay of separatist ideology and extralocal forces among Colony members and the following generation of their descendants. Artifactual data from relationships found among their mortuary objects reflects patterns of change in material, typology, composition, and language spanning the years 1862-1920. Subsequently, such objects express the tide of acculturation and dissolution experienced within the Colony.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-04-04T13:15:42Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) SILVA JUNIOR_AS FACES DE HELA_DISSERTACAO_ANTROPOLOGIA.pdf: 8245289 bytes, checksum: 044b055dbe96b181ca19df2c685f2216 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-04T13:15:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) SILVA JUNIOR_AS FACES DE HELA_DISSERTACAO_ANTROPOLOGIA.pdf: 8245289 bytes, checksum: 044b055dbe96b181ca19df2c685f2216 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-04 / FACEPE / Quando do surgimento dos primeiros cemitérios públicos no Brasil, uma personagem marcante - presente em grande quantidade nos pomposos cortejos fúnebres oitocentistas - se fez representar na pedra. Estas personagens foram figuras femininas, largamente representadas nas sepulturas, estando ligadas a valores, ideais, emoções e apresentandose sob diversas formas e trejeitos, inspirados, sobretudo, em um estilo neoclássico. Contudo esta onipresença do feminino nas necrópoles fundadas em meados do século XIX contrasta com a ausência das mulheres de carne e osso na vida pública das províncias, sendo guiadas basicamente pelo discurso e modo de ver masculino, que as restringiam ao âmbito do lar. Cabe a esta dissertação, portanto, identificar as muitas formas de representação do feminino na necrópole de Santo Amaro (entre 1870 e 1930), considerar a relação entre elas, o cotidiano e os discursos das elites sobre os “papeis sociais das mulheres”. Assim, procuro apresentar um espaço onde a iconografia feminina prosperou, dissertando sobre alguns motivos para tanto. Deste modo, no texto que segue, o leitor encontrará um pouco do cotidiano oitocentista do Recife, com seus contrastes de classe, raça e gênero; visualizará os aspectos fúnebres desta cidade em contraste com outras províncias do período e descortinará os dois lados, as duas faces da morte: o primeiro, aterrador, sofrível e pútrido e o segundo, aparente, belo e delicado que busca encobrir o primeiro. / In the emergence of the first public cemeteries in Brazil, a remarkable character - present in large quantities in the pompous funeral processions of the nineteenth century - was represented in stone. These characters were female figures, widely represented in the graves, being connected to values, ideals, emotions and presenting themselves in various forms and mannerisms, especially inspired by a neo-classical style. However, this omnipresence of women in the necropolis founded in the mid-nineteenth century contrasts with the absence of women of flesh and blood in the public life of the provinces, being guided primarily by speech and male way of seeing, that restricted them in the scope of home. It is up to this thesis, therefore, to identify the many forms of female representation in the necropolis of Santo Amaro (between 1870 and 1930), to consider the relationship between them and the daily life and the speeches of the elites on the "social roles of women". Thus, I try to present a space where the female iconography flourished, expounding some reasons for this. Thereby, in the following text the reader will find some of the nineteenth-century everyday Recife, with its class, race and gender contrasts; will see the funeral aspects of the city in contrast to other provinces of the period and will uncover the two sides, the two faces of death: the first terrifying, endurable and putrid and the second apparent, beautiful and delicate, which seeks to cover up the first.

Finding spatial solutions to insularity, space shortage and loss of value in a rapidly changing urban cemetery and context by investigating new relationships between the sacred and profane / Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

In this thesis I will focus on tourism in the ossuary in Kutná Hora. In the first part I plan to describe theoretical background of anthropology of tourism. In the second part I will discuss the history of ossuaries and the changes in the perception of death in society. In the final part, I will present the results of my own research of tourism in the ossuary. My aim is to relate the research I conducted, through interviews transcribed, to the theoretical approaches. Furthermore, I will present my own typology of visitors of the ossuary and also focus on the motives these tourists have to visit there. Key words: tourism, tourists, ossuary, cemetery.

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