...Micki McElya In Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket containing unidentified remains intended to represent all 184 victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack, a number...

...Figure 3. Site of Kugler Cemetery, August 2014, looking north from River Road. Photo by author. ...

... of the war in present day Iran. Melissa Hibbard and Hamid Rahmanian took the accompanying photos in Behesht-e Zahra (Zahra's Paradise), Tehran's gargantuan cemetery. Curated Spaces Memory, Mourning, Memorializing On the Victims of Iran-Iraq War, 1980 – Present Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi...

... mausoleums in the aristocratic section of the municipal cemetery, is a description of the “memo- rial that has been erected to those who were executed and ‘disappeared’ during General Pinochet’s dictatorship. On a slab of white stone about three stories tall, sev...

... Russell | Law and Bones 215 For the Spanish in the desert Southwest during their colonial adventure, cemeteries were campo santo, holy ground for the final repose of Christians, but the United States inherited most of its legal traditions from the English common law. William Blackstone...

... painted on the cemetery walls. In 2002, teachers, artists, students and other community members sketched and painted the history of their nation, town, and people; the result stands as a testament to Mayan resistance. For the recent past, it depicts Guatemala’s civil war (1960 – 96), the poverty...

.... REMEMBERING BENJY If this tribute is being offered to humans, we hear you asking, what about their pets? Can they look forward to anything beyond Maryland's Rosa Bonheur Cemetery, with its Tomb of the Unknown Pet, [see RHR 50, 551 or the dubious prospect of being freeze dried for eternity? Well, now...

...R.J. Lambrose 1991 The Abusable Past 6 999 R. J. Lambrose CURST BE HE THAT MOVES MY BONES Pet cemeteries have long existed in the United States, but until last year no one had ever thought to memorialize the thousands of stray...

... clothes. At the General Cemetery, San Carlos Rector Dr. Roberto Valdeavel - lano delivered the funeral oration. He spoke of Mario as an exemplary citizen, a man of dignity, an honorable universitario, a syndicalist friend of el pueblo, and a dear friend to everyone.19 Valdeavellano’s discourse...

... on page 132 should state: “The Memorial for the Disappeared. Santiago General Cemetery, 1999.” The photograph on page 133 is of the burial vaults that extend out from the memorial wall. The photograph for Patio 29 is missing...

... on page 132 should state: “The Memorial for the Disappeared. Santiago General Cemetery, 1999.” The photograph on page 133 is of the burial vaults that extend out from the memorial wall. The photograph for Patio 29 is missing...

... the village of their fathers and mothers, to weed and tend their own neglected cemetery. The descendents of Mi’ar are not “the stranger in our midst” that the Bible commands us to care for and pro- tect. They are not strangers on this disputed territory that we both...

.... For example, I’d heard about cemeteries where there were unmarked, or almost unmarked, graves for disabled people who had died in institutions. People were stuck in graves that were assigned numbers rather than ones with names on them. In almost every state, there were institutional cemeteries like...

... of Zahra cemetery (Behesht-e Zahra), the largest Iranian cemetery near Tehran, political debates routinely followed mourning rituals. To Foucault, it seemed that Shi‘ism had a different approach to death. It was not seen as the end, but simply one more stage...

... AND THOMPSON 121 volcano smolders. The initiatives from Brixton and Belfast are the most recent developments in the continuing crisis of those islands, and in- creasingly it looks as if British capitalism is moving toward a cemetery plot of its very own. This context gives a special...

... and on the histories of women and gender, and on sexuality. She is the author of Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-­Century America (2007) and is at work on “Grave Affairs: Arlington National Cemetery and the Politics of Death and Honor.” Jeffrey Melnick now teaches in the American Studies...

... and analyzes the transformation and amplification of these practices during the so-­called war on terror. In our second section, “Public Spaces,” two articles consider the processes of 9/11 historicizing at public memorial sites. Micki McElya focuses on the Arling- ton National Cemetery memorial...

.... Acknowledging past atrocities by Europeans, a monument at Polson cemetery, Hervey Bay, Queensland, gives voice to the role of South Sea Islanders in Queens- land’s development. Sixty-three thousand “Kanakas” were kidnapped between 1860-1901; their indentured, slave-like labor underwrote the viability...

...- mond’s Hollywood Cemetery, where some eighteen thousand Civil War soldiers are buried, to protest the placement of the statue in their city. “As a Southerner, I’m offended,” said Bragdon Bowling, Virginia division commander of the SOC. “You wouldn’t put...