Elephants have long unsettled and fascinated observers with what looks uncannily like a funeral rite, lingering over carcasses, touching bones and even covering bodies with soil and branches. For ...

Many animals are smarter than you might think. Elephants, besides being the largest land animals to walk the earth, are exceptionally intelligent. Beyond their amazing pattern recognition skills and ...

Essayist Karla Holloway says the recent discovery of bodies abandoned by the Tri State Crematorium in Georgia has deep resonance among African Americans who have strong beliefs around death and dying.

Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...