Tag: Research

• Archaeology, Death Positivity and Public Engagement

  

  Robyn Lacy entered the field of Archaeology with vague ideas of how she wanted to proceed. Every one of which got tossed out the window after a trip to Ireland, surveying rural Catholic and Anglican cemeteries and churchyards. Robyn hasn’t swayed from burial-related study since.

  Death and the Maiden

  24/11/2017

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  Archaeology, Burial, burial ground, Canada, Death, Death Positive, Excavation, Graves, gravestones, History, public engagement, Research

• Help Me Bring Them Back From The Dead

  What started as googling, quickly became a visit to California and resulted in a rather sad discovery. In Hollywood, there are so many graves of long-forgotten or barely remembered stars that once shined brightly on the silver screen. This is not how these women should be remembered. Their stories should be told. Remembering them for who they were and…

  Death and the Maiden

  22/08/2016

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  Beauty, Burial, California, Cemetery, Deadmaidens, Death, Film Industry, Forever Silent, Forgotten Stars, Go Fund Me, Graves, History, Hollywood, Marie Prevost, Research, Silent Era, Silent Films, Silver Screen, Writer

• The Deathtivals

  For Erica Buist, The Deathtivals Project didn’t come directly out of grief. It came out of her reaction to it. From snooping in a dead man’s fridge to computer investigations, Erica found herself on a journey of extreme anxiety and agoraphobia following the loss of someone it seemed she wasn’t entitled to grieve. This project…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/06/2016

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  Culture, Day of The Dead, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Grief, Loss, Mexico, Mortality, Panic, Research, The Deathtivals, This Is Not A Journey, Travel, Writing

• The Ascent of Female Funeral Celebrants

  I find myself wondering what this line of work is like for all of the other women who choose to walk this path? How do I take the complexities and subtle communication skills that I have honed, and use and embody as a funeral celebrant, and express them to others in such a way that…

  Death and the Maiden

  10/08/2015

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  British Columbia, Canada, Career, Celebrant, Ceremonies, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Eulogy, Experiences, Faith, Family, Funeral, Funeral Celebrant, Grief, Loss, Research, Spirituality, Tradition, Visual Ethnography, Women

• Excavation & Emotion

  I have been asking archaeologists how they go about their work as professionals and people as part of my PhD research in which I am exploring what impact emotion has on the practice of UK mortuary archaeology. I have interviewed and worked alongside field, forensic, academic, student and museum archaeologists, as well as osteologists and…

  Death and the Maiden

  03/08/2015

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  Academic, Archaeology, Burial, Career, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Excavation, Experiences, Fieldwork, Human Remains, London, Mortuary Archaeology, PhD, Practice, Research, Spitalfields, Study

• Skeletons in My Life’s Closet

  Jelena Bekvalac is a Curator of Human Osteology at the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London. As a life course becoming a museum curator and working with human skeletal remains was not one that she carefully planned. From exciting opportunities in London to excavations in Jordan and Prague Jelena takes us on a journey down her fascinating…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/06/2015

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  Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Career, Curator, Deadmaidens, Death, Excavation, Exhibitions, Experiences, Human Remains, London, Museum, Museum of London, Osteology, Research, Skeletal Remains, Skeletons, Travel, Wellcome Trust