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Graveyard Rituals

Graveyard Rituals is a ritual practice within African American Folk Religion involving structured spiritual acts conducted in burial grounds to honor ancestors, communicate with the dead, and harness supernatural protection or power, distinguished by its spatial and symbolic focus on the graveyard as a sacred liminal space.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual.

S. C. Humphreys, Richard Huntington, Peter Metcalf · Man · 1980 · 228 citations

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Defining the place of burial: What makes a cemetery a cemetery?

Julie Rugg · Mortality · 2000 · 201 citations

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Celebrations of death: the anthropology of mortuary ritual

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 178 citations

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Material culture and social death: African-American burial practices

Ross W. Jamieson · Historical Archaeology · 1995 · 172 citations

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A peaceful place in the city—A qualitative study of restorative components of the cemetery

Helena Nordh, Katinka H. Evensen, Margrete Skår · Landscape and Urban Planning · 2017 · 105 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. RH
    Richard Huntington

    2 publications · 316 citations

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  2. PM
    Peter Metcalf

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    2 publications · 316 citations

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  3. TG
    Terry G. Jordan

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  4. CN
    Christina Nicole Brooks

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. CO
    Charles O. Jackson

    University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States

    1 publications · 14 citations

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Institutions

23

  1. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    231 citations

  2. University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    172 citations

  3. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  4. Sax Institute

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  5. Norwegian University of Life Sciences

    Ås, Norway

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    210 citations

  6. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  7. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

    Trondheim, Norway

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    105 citations

  8. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    82 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 244 citations

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  2. Historical Archaeology

    2 publications · 229 citations

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  3. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    JRAI · 2 publications · 51 citations

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  4. World Archaeology

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  5. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

    1 publications · 18 citations

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