Demonstrates a deep and wide knowledge of Malay culture and society (including its arcane
and secret domains) and an expert practitioner's knowledge not simply of Malay silat but of …

How can nations ensure that buried nuclear waste goes undisturbed for thousands of years?
The United States government tried to solve this problem with the help of experts they …

For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and
southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific …

America's historical cemeteries are cultural treasures, yet they face a variety of threats,
ranging from over-eager real estate developers to uninformed property owners, petty …

Physical geographers have long shown an interest in necrogeography–the spatial study of
human burial practices (especially cemeteries, gravestones, and memorials)–to the extent …

Although cemetery studies might appear to be a dead and dreary topic, ultimately, the
opposite is true. This review essay examines three significant new contributions to cemetery …

Around 1500 years ago, the Coast Salish peoples of southwestern British Columbia began
to inter their dead within funerary petroforms. These burials, consisting of patterned …

Personal, yet utterly universal. Inevitable, yet unknowable. Death has been a dominant
theme in all cultures since time immemorial. Central to the theme of death is the burial of the …

A cemetery survey was completed in July of 2009 at two African American cemeteries in
coastal South Carolina. The objective of this research was to study above-ground artifacts …

Social and economic factors significantly influenced grave-marker choice in southern
California cemeteries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gradual changes in the …