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Mid-Atlantic Popular &
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Current American Mortuary Practice and (Re)invention of the Soul, the Social, the Body I

Death in American Culture / Panel / Session 1G08

Thursday, November 3, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Castanet 1 & 2)

Presentations

Modern-Day Suicide through the Lens of the American Cemetery

Kaitlyn Mae Gardner
Social Death, Physical Death: Mental Illness and Processes of Isolation During and After Life

Sara Prysi
“Candle in the Wind”: Modern Material Culture in American Cemeteries

Bryan D'Ostroph (Washington and Lee University)

Session chair

Alison Bell (Washington and Lee University)