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Inside Bolivia’s Skull Festival, Where the Dead Get Diamonds and Sunglasses
“Here death isn’t so final.” By Paul Koudounaris.
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Millennials on Spirit Quests Are Ruining Everything About Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca was a sacred medicine. Now it’s a global ‘it’ drug, and the trendiness is threatening the source. By Marina Lopes.
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Burial mounds make a comeback in 21st-century Britain
A type of burial used 5,000 years ago is available again as families mourning loved ones seek a better way of doing death. By Maev Kennedy. (Oct. 26, 2016)
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Europe’s Oldest Polished Axe Found in Ireland
The 9,000-year-old tool shows that Mesolithic people had sophisticated burial rituals and even cremated their dead. By Jason Daley.
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Wolfshäger Hexenbrut Walpurgis Wolfshagen im Harz
Wolfshäger Hexenbrut tanzt “Schüttle deinen Speck” von Peter Fox
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The Day of The Dead’s Rich Traditions, In 33 Dazzling Photos
It's a culture, not a costume. By Michael Gardiner.
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The Living Dead
An interview with Thomas Laqueur about his book The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. By Timothy Shenk. (Mar. 10, 2016)
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Tibetan Sky Burial: 36 Photos
[Warning: Disturbing, graphic, morbid] “The idea of your body being taken apart and flown into the air in a million different directions is really, really powerful ….” — Caitlin Doughty.
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New York State Makes It Legal to Cry in Your Funeral Pie
A new law in New York State allows funeral parlors to serve light refreshments and nonalcoholic drinks, joining 46 other states that allow some eating and drinking during services. By Sarah Maslin Nir.
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Learning to Say Goodbye to My Father: The Ritual of Letting Go
Sleeping next to a corpse, even that of a loved one, was a ritual I had long been dreading. Instead of bringing closure, it seemed a particularly cruel and gothic way to bring even more sorrow to a grieving family. By Shihoko Goto.
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Archaeology of the Undead
The many precautions people have taken to keep corpses in their graves. By James Close. (May 18, 2016)
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How human sacrifice helped to enforce social inequality
Using a language-based family tree and statistical methods developed by evolutionary biologists, we were able to model how human sacrifice and social inequality evolved in the prehistory of Austronesia. By Joseph Watts.
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Mummies Around the World—Dried, Smoked, or Thrown in a Bog
Cultures the world over have found ways to preserve the dead in almost any environment. By Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato. (Jan. 18)
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Corpse Brides and Ghost Grooms: A Guide to Marrying the Dead
So you want to marry a ghost. In some societies, it's possible—with a few caveats. Posthumous marriage—that is, nuptials in which one or both members of the couple are dead—is an established practice in China, Japan, Sudan, France, and even the United States...By Ella Morton.
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