Introduction
Part I. Cemeteries in social space
1. The long and complex relationship between cemeteries and cities
1.1 The birth of modern cemeteries in Europe
1.2 Cities, metropolises and post-modern cemeteries
2. The evolution of funeral practices
2.1 Religious necessity and secular practicality
2.2 Cemetery fantasies: From community to individual
Part II. Life in cemeteries
3. Why visit them? From anonymity to cemetery tourism
3.1. Paths of the living in the gardens of the dead
3.2. Spaces for education, culture and community
4. Why study them? Real and possible ethnographies
4.1 Some things done, much more still to do
4.2 Are cemeteries dying?
Biography
Michelangelo Giampaoli is an anthropologist and cultural heritage curator. He earned his PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology from the University of Perugia in Italy and from Paris Nanterre University. Over the past twenty years, he has been involved in researching and promoting cemeteries as places of collective memory, identity, and public education in Italy, France, Brazil, and the United States. As a professional lecturer, he teaches courses on death and cemeteries at DePaul University in Chicago.
