Module 6 Space and Place of Deaths, Cemeteries, Tombstones, Epitaphs

Question 1

What are some important takeaways about gravedigging?

Answer 1

1) People perform better than machines because of the carefulness
2) Metal handles suck for extreme temperatures
3) Grave walls have to be straight for most safety
4) Oak or mahogany wood coffins are better compared to composite wood because of the decomposition efficacy

Question 2

What is mortuary landscape?

Answer 2

the physical space of death in society

Question 3

What are ossuaries?

Answer 3

collections of disarticulated bones placed in a room or chamber

Question 4

What was the name of the tunnels of the crowded cemetery?

Answer 4

catacombs

Question 5

True or false. The catacombs of Paris are an ossuary.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What were the early problems of Pere Lachaise?

Answer 6

Too far from the city, attracted few funerals

Question 7

What did Napolean and his cemetery team plan to populate Pere Lachaise?

Answer 7

Transfer the remains of Moliere, La Fontaine, Abelard, and Heloise, popular individuals

Question 8

What are 3 reasons to visit Pere Lachaise?

Answer 8

beautiful mortuary, architecture, and mortuary statuary

Question 9

What inspired Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Boston?

Answer 9

Pere Lachaise

Question 10

What is Mount Auburn known for? Where is it located?

Answer 10

one of the most significant designed landscapes in the United States, located in Illinois

Question 11

What is the Presbitero Maestro?

Answer 11

The first municipal cemetery in Latin America

Question 12

How did students use the Presbitero Maestro cemetery for school?

Answer 12

Funerary monuments were used to educate students about Peruvian history

Question 13

What is one-way of Peruvians taking advantage of death?

Answer 13

Death can be used as an occasion to rewrite/alter history

Question 14

What is a niche?

Answer 14

Compartment/spaces for the deceased in cemeteries

Question 15

Why was the Presbitero Maestro abandoned?

Answer 15

the cemetery became surrounded by a “bad” neighborhood called Barrios Altos

Question 16

What cemetery replaced Presbitero Maestro?

Answer 16

Jardines de la Paz

Question 17

Where is Jardines de la Paz? (District, Country)

Answer 17

in the upper class neighborhood of La Molina, Peru

Question 18

What is Skogskyrkogarden? Location?

Answer 18

it is part of the World heritage, known as the woodland cemetery; located in Stockholm, Sweden

Question 19

True or false. You can tell who was rich just by looking at the gravestones in Skogskyrkogaren?

Answer 19

false

Question 20

True or false. Skogskyrkogaren was not religion based and anyone with any religion could get buried here.

Answer 20

true

Question 21

When is tomb-sweeping day in Taipei, Taiwan?

Answer 21

April 5th

Question 22

What is the name of the cemetery in Taipei, Taiwan? Also know as city of the dead.

Answer 22

Liuzhangli

Question 23

What is a columbaria?

Answer 23

Spirit bone towers, the apartment of the dead

Question 24

What was the White Terror?

Answer 24

The White Terror was the suppression of opponents of the Kuomintang’s rule over Taiwan

Question 25

What are Epitaphs?

Answer 25

The inscription on tombstones

Question 26

What is Tombstones Iconography?

Answer 26

designs of the tombstones, images

Question 27

What is the battleship curve?

Answer 27

was the popularity of specific tombstones such as Cherubs growth in popularity, the way of style operates