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Butchery has been a major part of food processing globally for the last two million years. This article focuses specifically on dog butchery, which despite being observed ethnographically and historically in various parts of the world, has not been fully explored. This project will ultimately combine ethnographic and archaeological analysis in order to build a comparative dataset that can be used for archaeological materials. A case study regarding a modern assemblage of dog bones (N=256),...
From Brixton to Paisley Park: Tribute shrines to rock legends in the UK and USA (2018)
On 10th January 2016, many people flocked to Brixton, London to leave tributes in front of a mural depicting Aladdin Sane, a character developed by the musician David Bowie, who had died that day. The same acts of pilgrimage were seen in April 2016 when ‘Prince’ Rogers Nelson died at his private estate in Minnesota; fans laid flowers and tied purple balloons to perimeter fencing. Such practices of public grieving can tell us a good deal about attitudes to death, commemoration and celebrity. In...