Word: funerales
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Funeral arrangements and the cause of death were not available at press time.
It took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century...
Even when permission is granted, the rituals don't always take place on schedule. Indeed, when the women showed up to film the Dogon funeral ceremony--which occurs only once every 12 years--they discovered that it wouldn't begin for six more weeks. "We often end up sitting and...
Ferris' funeral was held Saturday in Claremont, N.H. A memorial service will be held in First Parish Church in Weston on September 7, according to Dockery.
DIED. JESSICA MITFORD, 78, muckraking journalist and best-selling author; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif. In her quest to "embarrass the guilty," Mitford wrote books on the funeral business (The American Way of Death, 1969), the U.S. prison system (Kind and Unusual Punishment, 1973) and obstetrics (The American Way of...