Grief
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.
Matthew Sweet discusses grief and the expression of mourning with guests
Lindsey Buster, an archaeologist whose work at Death Cafes, set up to help people talk about death, has led her to reinterpret the way people's relationship with 'stuff' shows up in the archaeological record
Emily MacGregor, a musicologist who is writing a memoir of the ways her relationship with music changed after the death of her father
Christina Faraday, an historian of art who has studied memento mori and vanitas, two popular genres of painting in the early modern period that suggest a different set of attitudes towards death
Sally Berkovic, who has written about Jewish rituals and traditions surrounding death and mourning
Image: Weeping widow statue in Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
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