Foreword: Translating life, death, and Italian: A foreword to the English Edition of La Vita Sociale dei Cimiteri by Jane Eva Baxter
Introduction
Part I. Cemeteries in social space
1. The long and complex relationship between cemeteries and cities
2. The evolution of funeral practices
Part II. Life in cemeteries
3. Why visit them? From anonymity to cemetery tourism
4. Why study them? Real and possible ethnographies
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.
