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Burying and remembering the dead

(2014) MEMORY STUDIES. 7(4). p.457-471
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In cemeteries, we do not remember our dead privately or quietly, as for example, in prayers. Instead, we do so publicly and visibly, so that what we do (or do not do) can be noticed by the public. But how do we remember and commemorate our dead at public cemeteries? Based on mixed-methods analyses of the markers for the dead at cemeteries in a religiously relatively homogeneous (namely, Catholic) region, three recent socio-cultural evolutions are identified and analyzed: (1) the construction of idiosyncratic markers and the accompanying emergence of individualized identities, (2) the emphasis on embodied modes of remembrance, and (3) the increasing visibility of voluntary social commitments and strong ties. Overall, the findings presented here point to the growing diversification of our ways of publicly remembering and commemorating the dead.
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material culture, public commemoration, MORTALITY, CEMETERIES, AMERICAN, cemeteries, grave markers, cultural history

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Vanderstraeten, Raf. “Burying and Remembering the Dead.” MEMORY STUDIES, vol. 7, no. 4, 2014, pp. 457–71, doi:10.1177/1750698013519122.
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Vanderstraeten, R. (2014). Burying and remembering the dead. MEMORY STUDIES, 7(4), 457–471. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698013519122
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Vanderstraeten, Raf. 2014. “Burying and Remembering the Dead.” MEMORY STUDIES 7 (4): 457–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698013519122.
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Vanderstraeten, Raf. 2014. “Burying and Remembering the Dead.” MEMORY STUDIES 7 (4): 457–471. doi:10.1177/1750698013519122.
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Vanderstraeten R. Burying and remembering the dead. MEMORY STUDIES. 2014;7(4):457–71.
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R. Vanderstraeten, “Burying and remembering the dead,” MEMORY STUDIES, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 457–471, 2014.
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  author       = {{Vanderstraeten, Raf}},
  issn         = {{1750-6980}},
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  title        = {{Burying and remembering the dead}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1177/1750698013519122}},
  volume       = {{7}},
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