in touch with the deceased: animate objects and human ashes meike heessels, a fleur poots, b and eric venbrux a a radboud university nijmegen, the netherlands, b university of amsterdam, the netherlands Downloaded by [Ecole Hautes Etudes Commer-Montreal] at 22ABSTRACT Despite increasing secularization in the Netherlands, beliefs in an afterlife have not disappeared. Instead, new death rituals have emerged, among which is the practice of enclosing human ashes in objects such as paintings, candleholders, jewelry, and tattoos. Because human matter can now be incorporated into paint, glass, metal, and human skin, the dead become part of daily life and the living become carriers of the deceased. As a consequence, the boundaries between persons and things, and the living and the dead blur. In fact, people's practices with ash objects suggest that these objects are regarded as animate. Though people are not religiously affiliated, their practices suggest beliefs in an afterlife, which we will explore in this article.

Secondary burial, though often associated with exotic places, appears to be less rare in the Netherlands than people assume. In this article we discuss contemporary re-interments of 'average' people, seeking to understand why such reburials take place and whether, and how, the events are ritualised. The reburials, we found, do not conform to a standardised practice: they vary considerably, leaving room for the survivors to create their own rituals, because the transition from the status of 'living' to that of 'dead' has already taken place. Moreover, these ritualisations often intersect events in the lives of survivors.

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Vliegen in het donker. Van waarden naar handelingsnormen in inclusief onderzoek Steeds vaker wordt in onderzoek naar mensen met een verstandelijke beperking (VB), samengewerkt met mensen die zelf een dergelijke beperking hebben. De auteurs van deze bijdrage hebben samen met mensen met een VB een interventie ontwikkeld die zich richt op het

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