The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a
sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles …

Using a qualitative approach, this study aimed to examine the changing nature of death,
dying and mourning among Muslims of Kashmir due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Telephonic …

A great deal of material has been written about cemeteries based on the assumption that
they constitute a specific type of burial place, but few writers have given close attention to the …

Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It
traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from …

As a global threat, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an important factor in increasing death
rate worldwide. As the virus spreads across international borders, it causes severe illness …

Why do funeral practices vary between modern Western countries? In the mid-nineteenth
century, managing the rapidly expanding number of corpses had to be controlled and …

Cemeteries garner considerable academic attention as anthropologists, landscapers,
archaeologists, sociologists, geographers and historians examine their layout, purpose and …

Burial sites have been a long-standing focus for cross-cultural research. The cemetery
activities and dispositions of people who visit and tend graves in urban, Western society …

There is growing comment in both academic and popular writing about the shape and
content of funerals today, with general agreement that we are seeing marked changes with a …

This article explores the role that funerary practices and burial decisions play in the
construction of national and political identities amongst M uslim immigrants in G ermany …