Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Burial

The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea; or the inurnment of CREMAINS.

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Abstract

The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea; or the inurnment of CREMAINS.

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  • Burials

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7 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data.

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History Note

91(75); was see under MORTUARY PRACTICE 1975-90

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  1. I01w.076w.201w.450w.550.150w

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WA 846

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Burial. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002048. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002048
  2. Burial. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial
  3. Burial. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331055