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Grave Maintenance

Grave Maintenance is an academic construct denoting the systematic practices and rituals performed to preserve, honor, and manage ancestral burial sites as a form of ongoing veneration within cultural and religious traditions.

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Publications

105

Citations

12

Authors

9

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

4

“Who will care for me when I am dead?” Ancestors, homeless spirits, and new afterlives in low-fertility Japan

Satsuki Kawano · Contemporary Japan · 2014 · 50 citations · Full text

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Rules, Norms and Practices – A Comparative Study Exploring Disposal Practices and Facilities in Northern Europe

Helena Nordh, Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp et al. · OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying · 2021 · 24 citations · Full text

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Remembering and Forgetting: The Relationship Between Memory and the Abandonment of Graves in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Greek Cemeteries

Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · 2010 · 16 citations

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Scattering Ashes of the Family Dead: Memorial Activity among the Bereaved in Contemporary Japan

Satsuki Kawano · Ethnology · 2004 · 15 citations · Full text

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Authors

12

  1. SK
    Satsuki Kawano

    University of Guelph, Canada

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  2. DH
    Danielle House

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  3. AM
    Avril Maddrell

    University of the West of England, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  4. LT
    Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory

    The Ohio State University, United States

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  5. CJ
    Christoph Jedan

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    1 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

9

  1. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Uppsala, Sweden

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  2. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  3. University of Guelph

    Guelph, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    50 citations

  4. Institute of Transport Economics

    Oslo, Norway

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  5. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  7. University of Luxembourg

    Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  8. University of the West of England

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

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Venues

  1. Ethnology

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  2. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  3. 1

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  4. Contemporary Japan

    1 publications · 50 citations

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