Author: Rachel Ceasar

Religion, Secularism, and Science at the Spanish Exhumation

Post author Rachel Ceasar
Post date January 30, 2014
1 Comment on Religion, Secularism, and Science at the Spanish Exhumation

“Every kind of religion produces its own kind of secularism,” (Harding 2014).[1]

“There were two classes of citizens: those that had won the war, and those who had lost. It was like in India—do you know of the caste system? It was the same here,” explained Cecilia[2] at an exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil …

Tags Body/embodiment, Death, Europe, History, Memory, Politics, Religion, War

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Anthropology of the Dead Body: The Corpse in Theory, Action, and Literature

Post author Rachel Ceasar
Post date January 21, 2014
5 Comments on Anthropology of the Dead Body: The Corpse in Theory, Action, and Literature

A good read, like a good song, reminds you of where you were and who you were with when you first experienced it. On that note, I am grateful to my mentors for their kind guidance in pushing me to think critically about the dead body; their interrogation of “When is the dead body just a dead body, just a …

Tags Body/embodiment, Death