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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Burial ground"”.
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The African burial ground
This thesis is tripartite. It is at once a search for the universal principles of good architecture, an architect's personal search for what is valuable, and the exploration of some particular ideas in a particular project. The successful thesis joins the universal and the particular and calls into …
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Death of the cemetry : burial ground as park route
Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Buried beyond Buitengracht : interrogating cultural variability in the historic 'informal' burial ground of Prestwich Street, Cape Town
Includes bibliographical references.
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Black River Cemetery: An anthropological study of the human remains exhumed from a historic Cape Town burial ground
… Athlone (a suburb of Cape Town), was open for burials from 1867 - 1951, serving three Anglican Churches. The recent (2017) excavation of the historic site allowed for the analysis of the exhumed skeletal remains. The outcome of the skeletal analysis is valuable as the lives documented on the …
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Cobern Street burial ground : investigating the identity and life histories of the underclass of eighteenth century Cape Town
The Cobern Street site was shown to be a burial ground only in 1994, when a number of skeletons were disinterred prior to building operations. Attempts to locate documentary records of the burials have been unsuccessful, and we do not know who these people were. The lack of documentary records is …
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The palaces of memory: a reconstruction of District One, Cape Town, before and after the Group Areas Act
… past. The dramatic uncovering of the Prestwich burial ground and subsequent struggles provided the impetus to link the past with contemporary concerns on identity and memory. The narrative of District One is about the topography of the land and people while the archive of the area reflects a …
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Interpersonal violence and fracture patterns in 18th and 19th century London.
… economic contexts. The contextualisation of each burial ground proved to be imperative to the research. The statistical results revealed that grouping collections together based on their socioeconomic status does not describe nor explain the fracture patterns seen in the collections considering …
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Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
A unique opportunity to study historic burial practices in Cape Town arose in 1994 when construction activities at Cobern Street, Green Point revealed an eighteenth century burial ground. Subsequent salvage excavations unearthed approximately 65 burials and scattered skeletal material (both …
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Unseen lives, silent mourning : the visibility of lesbian death in materialised words.
… situations – a municipal cemetery and a natural burial ground. Significant paradoxes are identified which mean that wishes for visibility conflict with material impermanence and fears of homophobic violence. The discussion references Davies’ (2002) theory of ‘words against death’ and Hertz’s …
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“Giving something back”: A case study of woodland burial and human experience at Barton Glebe.
… in British funerary rites known as ‘natural’ burial through an interview-based case study of one particular site, Barton Glebe, which offers ‘woodland’ burial. Through ethnographic description and socio-cultural analysis the values, concepts and behaviours aligned with natural burial are …
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District 1: Mapping memories of an erased space in a transforming post-apartheid city
… the layered history of District One as both a burial ground and an area of forced removals, the area is clearly one of great heritage significance. Heritage discourse in South Africa has always been geared towards the tangible Eurocentric built environment, which with South Africa's history of …
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Siting the industrial cemetery : new burial grounds and crematory for Braintree, MA
… The rituals and attitudes surrounding death and burial are also changing. Cremation is beginning to precede over burial for economic and practical reasons, and the rituals of death are becoming less personal. This thesis will address these issues through the critique and design of a new extension …
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Peripheral memory : New York's forgotten landscape
Hart Island, New York City's largest public burial ground, reveals an alternate history of the city through the lens of the interment of the abject. Historically, the state has provided for remains not otherwise cared for through what are commonly referred to as "potter's fields" - municipally …
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Seen but not heard: Reconstructing the early life history of the Industrial child through carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of dentine collagen
… within a single 19th century London burial population to investigate the effects which changing social and economic conditions during Industrialisation had on their diet, health, and quality of life. Materials & Methods Macroscopic analysis was performed on the excavated assemblage …
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STUDIO DI UN TERRITORIO DI CONFINE: LA NECROPOLI DI CASALFIUMANESE NEL QUADRO DEL POPOLAMENTO DELLE VALLATE APPENNINICHE ROMAGNOLE TRA ORIENTALIZZANTE ED ETA' TARDO ARCAICA
… as Umbrians, paying particular attention to the burial ground of Montericco di Imola. Finally, in the fifth and last chapter, after having exposed and discussed the characteristics considered unique to this very coherent set of evidence, the question of ethnicity was addressed, starting from an …
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Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders
… report relating to a local Nyungah burial ground. The resulting 'investigation' undertaken by Bella and Tallis into this situation results in their uncovering of local government corruption and a large, commercial marijuana plantation. This simple plot allows for a complex …
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Burialand : ritual infrastructure for public amenity in China
This thesis investigates the nature of burial place as a daily public space to mourn people's loss and celebrate their life in the ordinary cities. It seeks a new architectural typology of cemetery to rebuild a relationship between the dead and the living and it envisions the future cemetery to …