From Secondary Burial to Eco-Coffins: Traditions and Trends in Funerary Cultures
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 12pm to 1:30pm
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From Secondary Burial to Eco-Coffins: Traditions and Trends in Funerary Cultures
A lecture by Thorsten Wettich
Wed., Nov. 13, 2024; 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Knight DREAM Lab Workshop Space (122)
The lecture introduces air burial in Tibet and the secondary burials in Sumatra as examples of collective representation of death and contrasts them with recent trends in Western burial culture such as multi-religious graveyards, ecologically conscious burials, neo-pagan rituals, and cryonics.
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