Tomorrow night I will be leading a presentation on Gravestone Studies and how they can fit into Digital Humanities. I will be looking at what Gravestone Studies is and what it does, and explore RAW , a density mapping tool.
Here are three readings if you are interested in getting some background information about studying death, headstones or (virtual) cemeteries:
Two examples of digital memorialization:
Here are three readings if you are interested in getting some background information about studying death, headstones or (virtual) cemeteries:
- Gorer, “The Pornography of Death”, Encounter (October 1955): 49-52. Online: http://www.romolocapuano.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gorer.pdf
- Deetz, James and Edwin Dethlefsen. “Death’s Head, Cherub, Urn and Willow”, Natural History 76, no. 3 (1967): 29-37. Online: www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/deathshead.html
- Roberts, Pamela. “The Living and the Dead: Community in the Virtual Cemetery”, Omega: Journal of Death & Dying 49, no. 1 (2004): 57-76. Online: http://ome.sagepub.com/content/49/1/57.full.pdf
Two examples of digital memorialization:
- Viewology™:Memorials That Tell A Story: http://web.archive.org/web/20001026122450/http://leif.com/
- "QR Codes For Headstones Keep Dearly Departed Close." http://www.npr.org/2012/09/29/162011967/qr-codes-for-headstones-keep-dearly-departed-close