Reading List

• The American Way of Death Revisited. Jessica Mitford. 2000. London: ViragoPress

• Death: A Graveside Companion. Joanna Ebenstein. 2021. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 

• Let's Talk About Death Over Dinner. Michael Hebb. 2020. London: Orion Spring

• Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Can Tell Us About Life and Living. Brandy Schillace. 2015. London: Elliott and Thompson Limited

• This Mortal Coil: A History of Death. Andrew Doig. 2023. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

• Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries. Lorraine Evans. 2020. Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Ltd.

• A Tomb with a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards. Peter Ross. 2020. London: Headline Publishing Group

• Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader, 2nd Ed. Antonius C.G.M. Robben. 2018. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

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• 'Grave concerns: the state of public cemetery records management in South Africa'.
  Marie-Louise Rouget. Archives and Records, 44:1, 73-94. Here.

• 'Death ‘On the Move’: Funerals, Entrepreneurs and The Rural–Urban Nexus In South Africa. Rebekah Lee. Africa, 81(2) (2011): 226-247. Here.

• Death and Dying in the History of Africa since 1800. Rebekah Lee and Megan Vaughan. The Journal of African History, Vol. 49, No. 3 (2008), pp. 341-359. Here.

• Defining the place of burial: What makes a cemetery a cemetery? Julie Rugg. Mortality, 5(3) (2000): 259-275. Here.

• Social justice and cemetery systems. Julie Rugg. Death Studies, (2020): 1-25. Here. 

• Proceedings of the Art of Death and Dying Symposium. October 24-27, 2013, University Of Houston Libraries Houston, Tx. Edited by Katie Buehner, Kerry Creelman, Catherine Essinger and Andrea Malone. Here.

• Death makes us alive. Delia du Toit. 2 October 2022. Wits.ac.za

• Could Water Cremation Become the New American Way of Death? Lauren Oster. 27 July 2022. Smithsonianmag.com.

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