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Natural Burial
Landscape, Practice and Experience
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary death care practices, environmental sustainability, cultural rituals, and the changing landscape of burial traditions. It suits professionals in funeral services, academics studying death and culture, and anyone curious about alternatives to conventional burial methods.
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The only book to unravel the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial.
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This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings, and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened, there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: new providers, new landscapes, and a hybrid of new and traditional rituals. In this short time, the natural burial movement has flourished. In the UK, there are more than 200 sites, and the concept has travelled to North America, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
This survey of natural burials draws on interviews with those involved in the natural burial process—including burial ground managers, celebrants, priests, bereaved family, and funeral directors—providing a variety of viewpoints on the concept as a philosophy and landscape practice. Site surveys, design plans, and case studies illustrate the challenges involved in creating a natural burial site, and a key longitudinal case study of a single site investigates the evolving nature of the practice.
Natural Burial is the first book on this subject to bring together all the groups and individuals involved in the practice, explaining the facts behind this type of burial and exploring a topic that is attracting significant media interest and an upsurge of sites internationally.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780415631686
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 June 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Illustration: 91 Halftones, color
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 189.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 590g
Pages: 234
About the Author
Andy Clayden is a senior lecturer and landscape architect in the Department of Landscape, Sheffield University. His research focuses on the temporal and dynamic nature of landscape, which has had a major influence on his design teaching and how people experience and engage with the natural burial and cemetery landscape.
Trish Green is a Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Her main academic interests lie in the relational aspects of life course transitions, ageing and gendered subjectivities, and the emotional meanings of time, space and place. She has conducted research and co-authored several articles on natural burial.
Jenny Hockey trained as an anthropologist and is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University. Widely published in Death Studies, she was founding president of the Association for the Study of Death and Society and remains a member of the editorial board of Mortality, the European Journal of Death Studies.
Mark Powell trained in social anthropology at the Queen’s University, Belfast. His research focuses on the relationship between social identity, cultural belonging and environments. Based at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, he works across disciplines to investigate the social and cultural dimensions of hard infrastructural environments.
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