Secondary burial in the Netherlands: Rights, rites and motivations

Heessels, Meike; Venbrux, H.J.M.

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“…47 Most countries that practise secondary burials usually have legislation to ensure that a body is le in the ground or other place of primary interment for a certain length of time before it is disinterred, depending on the burial conditions. 48…”

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Structural violence and the nature of cemetery-based skeletal reference collections

Vanderbyl

Albanese

Cardoso

2020

Human Remains and Violence

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The sourcing of cadavers for North American skeletal reference collections occurred immediately after death and targeted the poor and marginalised. In Europe, collections sourced bodies that were buried and unclaimed after some time in cemeteries with no perpetual care mandate, and may have also targeted the underprivileged. The relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and abandonment was examined in a sample of unclaimed remains (603 adults and 98 children) collected from cemeteries in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, that were incorporated in a collection. Results demonstrate that low SES individuals are not more likely to be abandoned nor to be incorporated in the collection than higher SES individuals. Furthermore, historical data indicate that the poorest were not incorporated into the collection, because of burial practices. Although the accumulation of collections in North America was facilitated by structural violence that targeted the poor and marginalised, this phenomenon seems largely absent in the Lisbon collection.

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Structural violence and the nature of cemetery-based skeletal reference collections

Vanderbyl

Albanese

Cardoso

2020

Human Remains and Violence

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“…There are practical issues, for example the decomposition rates of a body that may determine the minimum period (Heessels and Venbrux, 2009;Fiedler et al, 2012) and psychological and community aspects of the inter-and intra-generational connection to a burial space (Larkin, 2011;Matthey et al, 2013).…”

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Planning, provision and perpetuity of deathscapes—Past and future trends and the impact for city planners

Davies

Bennett

2016

Land Use Policy

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“…As a point of contrast, although visiting the graves of relatives remains a duty in many traditionally Protestant countries, the perpetual nature of the burials by no means suggests that graves are permanently cared for, or that they are not also abandoned or neglected by families and next of kin (Goody and Poppi 1994;Harvey 2006;Strange 2003;Anthony 2016). For example, Anthony (2016) describes the case of cemeteries in Denmark, where 80% of the graves in managed cemeteries are abandoned.…”

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An Ethical, Cultural and Historical Background for Cemetery-Based Human Skeletal Reference Collections

Cardoso

2021

JCA

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OPEN ACCESS-PAID-CC BY-NC-ND In historically Protestant countries, human skeletal reference collections curated by research institutions have been amassed from bodies dissected by anatomists, typically unclaimed cadavers from morgues and hospitals, or from remains donated to science. In contrast to these anatomy-based and donation-based collections, skeletal reference collections in historically Roman Catholic countries on mainland Europe and in Latin America are for the most part derived from unclaimed remains exhumed from modern cemeteries and ossuaries at the end of the mandated interment period. While much has been written in English about the history, context and ethical framework of anatomy-derived collections, cemetery-based collections have received very little critical attention. The current paper addresses this gap, with particular reference to cemetery-derived collections in Portugal. The cultural and historical context of southern Europe is discussed, particularly Roman Catholic mortuary traditions and the influence of the Napoleonic Code, and these provide the background for an overview of the ethical issues raised by cemetery-derived collections. Here, general principles that should guide the work of human osteologists working in archaeological contexts are relevant, as regards consent, dignity and respect and benefits to science and education, because unlike their anatomy-derived counterparts, cemetery-based collections include individuals who were once buried.

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Secondary burial in the Netherlands: Rights, rites and motivations

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Structural violence and the nature of cemetery-based skeletal reference collections

Structural violence and the nature of cemetery-based skeletal reference collections

Planning, provision and perpetuity of deathscapes—Past and future trends and the impact for city planners

An Ethical, Cultural and Historical Background for Cemetery-Based Human Skeletal Reference Collections

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