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Burial sites have long been recognized as a way to understand past civilizations. Yet, the meanings of our present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they reveal much about our cultures. Exploring an extraordinarily diverse range of memorial practice - Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Anglican, as well as the unchurched - The Secret Cemetery is an intriguing study of what these places of death mean to the living. Most of us experience cemeteries at a ritualized moment of loss. What we forget is that these are often places to which we return either as a general space in which to contemplate or as a specific site to be tended. These are also places where different communities can reinforce boundaries and even recreate a sense of homeland. Over time, ritual, artefact and place shape an intensely personal landscape of memory and mourning, a landscape more alive, more actively engaged with than many of the other places we inhabit.

• List of Figuresp. ix
• Acknowledgementsp. xi
• Foreword: The Body in the Sacred Gardenp. xv
• Studying the Living in Cemeteriesp. 1
• The Dynamics of Cemetery Landscapesp. 29
• Planting the Memory: The Cemetery in the First Year of Mourningp. 55
• The Grave as Home and Gardenp. 81
• Negotiating Memory: Remembering the Dead for the Long Termp. 105
• Keeping Kin and Kinship Alivep. 141
• Cemeteries as Ethnic Homelandsp. 179
• Change and Renewal in Historic Cemeteriesp. 197
• Appendices
• The Aide-Memoire Used during Fieldworkp. 217
• Forms Used for Household Surveys at Abney Park and Woodgrange Park Cemeteriesp. 221
• Form Used for the Woodland Burial Surveyp. 231
• Facsimile of a Deed from the City of London Cemetery and Crematoriump. 237
• Visiting Patterns at Four Study Sitesp. 239
• Notesp. 243
• Referencesp. 277