Further information

General

Kenneth V.Iserson. Death to Dust: What happens to dead bodies?. Galen Press, 2001
Houlbrooke, Ralph (ed.) Death, ritual and bereavement. Routledge, London, 1989.
Gittings, Clare. Death, burial and the individual in early modern England. Croom Helm, London, 1984
Counts, DR and DA. Coping with the final tragedy: cultural variation in dying and grieving. Baywood, New York, 1991.
Quigley, Christine. The corpse: a history. McFarland, North Carolina, 1996.
Parkes, Colin Murray et al (eds.) Death and bereavement across cultures. Routledge, London, 1997.

Robert Nicol. At the end of the road: government, society & the disposal of human remains in the 19th & 20th centuries. Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 1994
Pat Jalland. Australian Ways of Death: A social and cultural history 1840-1918. OUP, 2002. ISBN 0 19 550754 1
Kathy Charmaz et al (eds.) The unknown country: death in Australia, Britain and the USA. ST Martin’s Press, New York, 1997.
Kellehear, Allan. Death and dying in Australia. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000.
Graeme M Griffin, In the midst of life: Australian responses to death. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1997
Victorian mourning
Cecil, Robert. The masks of death: changing attitudes in the nineteenth century. The Book Guild, Sussex, 1991.
Jalland, Pat. Death in the Victorian family. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996.
Curl, James Stevens. The Victorian celebration of death. Sutton, Stroud, 2000

Ruby, Jay. Secure the shadow: death and photography in America. MIT press, 1995.

Bernardo T. Arriaza. Beyond Death: The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile.
Smithsonian Institution, 1995
Heather Pringle . The mummy congress: science, obsession and the everlasting dead. Fourth Estate, 2001
Cockburn, Aiden and Eve Cockburn. Mummies, disease and ancient cultures. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980.

Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer. The Skeleton at the Feast: the day of the dead in Mexico. British Museum Press, 1991