The secret cemetery [electronic resource] /

Francis, Doris, 1940-

The secret cemetery [electronic resource] / Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, and Georgina Neophytou ; with a foreword by Sir Raymond Firth. - English ed. - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005. - xxii, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-294) and index.

Foreword: The body in the sacred garden -- 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 -- Negotiating memory : remembering the dead for the long term -- Keeping kin and kinship alive -- Cemeteries as ethnic homelands -- Change and renewal in historic cemeteries.


Electronic reproduction.
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Cemeteries--Social aspects.
Cemeteries--Psychological aspects.
Mourning customs.
Bereavement.


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