What are we doing when we bury the dead?
Across history and cultures, there are rich variations in beliefs about burial and in burial practices themselves. By attending to these, we can learn not only about the dead, but also insights that might otherwise remain hidden about the beliefs, values, cosmologies and politics of the society in which they lived.
Drawing on eighteenth and twenty-first-century examples, and approaching these questions from social anthropological and literary-historical perspectives, this panel examines in both literal and metaphorical terms what our relationships with the dead can reveal and why this matters.
Facilities
- wheelchair access
Accessibility Facilities
- Designated wheelchair public toilet
- Induction loops
- Mostly flat terrain
- Wheel chair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
