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  Nuwer, Rachel. “Meet the Celebrity Skulls of Bolivia’s Fiesta de las Ñatitas.” Smithsonian, November 17, 2015.

  Scotto di Santolo, A., L. Evangelista, and A. Evangelista. “The Fontanelle Cemetery: Between Legend and Reality.” Paper delivered at the Second International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites, University of Naples Federico II.

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  Wilson, Liz. Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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  Hagerty, James R. “Funeral Industry Seeks Ways to Stay Relevant.” Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2016.

  Ruggeri, Amanda. “The Strange, Gruesome Truth about Plague Pits and the Tube.” BBC, September 6, 2015.

  ADDITIONAL AROUND THE WORLD DEATH READING

  Jones, Barbara. Design for Death. Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.

  Koudounaris, Paul. Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us. Thames & Hudson, 2015.

  Metcalf, Peter, and Richard Huntington. Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

  Murray, Sarah. Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre—How We Dignify the Dead. Picador, 2012.

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