'Stood to rest': reorientating necrogeographies for the 21 century.
Human bodies are typically buried underground, horizontally 'in repose'. To the extent that this orientation has become the standard; it is a non-choice that is under-interrogated by scholars. In this paper, we discuss innovations which allow for the vertical orientation of the body within the earth...
| Publicado en: | Mortality Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 54 - 73 |
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Feb2023
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