Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants (Popularity: ): Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century. Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography (Popularity: ): Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide. History Of Funeral Customs (Popularity: ): Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site. Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China (Popularity: ): Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village. Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians (Popularity: ): How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial ... Marriage and Funerals in Athens (Popularity: ): Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece. Aging and Death in Folklore (Popularity: ): Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region. Backcountry Death Ways (Popularity: ): Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region ... Death and Afterwards (Popularity: ): Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife. Orkney Islands (Popularity: ): Omens of Death
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