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Thick Description and Twitter at #AAA2013
I just returned from Chicago and the American Anthropological Association annual meeting. The big event was an invited session: THE ONTOLOGICAL TURN in FRENCH PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Tweeting...
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Space, the final frontier
Space, the final frontier That’s correct. Space burials coming soon.
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Lack of palliative training for Canadian doctors
Lack of palliative training for Canadian doctors Physicians hold the power but appear to be out of the loop.
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Dead and Buried
Dead and Buried is an innovative research project that enagages a group of young people (not in education, employment or training) with the opportunity to work alongside Dr. Hannah Rumble, from Bath...
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Deathbed choir
The comments section is quite revealing in this article on Deathbed Choirs in the HuffPost. Readers had mixed feelings and felt uncomfortable about strangers being present. Should deathbed choir emerge...
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Google has you covered …
Plan your digital afterlife … Google has announced a new feature: google afterlife Tagged: data, ditigal afterlife, planning, social media
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Please don’t make me a hero …
This is very sobering piece on obituaries and memorializing people. We really do reference cancer as a ‘battle’ that one faces, bravely. But, what if someone doesn’t want to be a hero in this life,...
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Rent a mourner …
Rent a mourner … Now this is interesting … measuring one’s popularity by the number of crying mourners. Tagged: funeral practices, grief, social
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Research Update
I am currently in the throws of writing a dissertation chapter, but I stopped long enough to present the chapter theme(s) at a conference. Here is an excerpt … Orienting memories: taste and comfort...
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if tombstones accurately reflected our social media personas … (lol)
Finally, some humour on this blog: tombstone reflections Tagged: burial practices, homour, social media
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An excellent online resource: The Death Reference Desk!
Welcome to the Death Reference Desk! Geographically dispersed but unified with dark inside, we are two librarians and one professor of death and dying practices. Here we combine our expertise to inform...
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