Death culture, cemeteries & the visual arts for morbid adults in South Africa & beyond.
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Instigated by Larissa Hallowes-Welman and Marie-Louise Rouget, the Mzansi Death Studies Network is a support network of like-minded individuals interested in the study of death, cemeteries, and bereavement in South Africa.
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Marie-Louise is the founder, writer and editor for Morbid Musings. A compulsive collector of oddities (material and immaterial) and an archivist by training, her interests are broad and chaotic, and far more than she will be able to indulge in one lifetime. Morbid Musings draws together more than a decade of reading and writing about the visual arts, culture, death and bureaucracy in various guises. Not to mention a lifetime of skulking around graveyards marvelling at the personalities, stories, and baffling font choices our forebears leave behind. She is South African and currently based in Tanzania.
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Marie-Louise Rouget
South Africa | Tanzania