Laying the Victorians to Rest: Funerals,Memorials, and the Funeral Business in Nineteenth‐Century Otago

This article seeks to integrate the history of the physical aspects of burial practices with the cultural aspects of mourning and bereavement by considering the businesses that catered for the demand created by funerals and mourning in the second half of the nineteenth century. The example of the first major industrial and commercial urban centre to develop in New Zealand, Dunedin, is used to show that a range of businesses emerge quickly to cater for the funerary trade. Many were short lived, and few specialised exclusively in the funerary business.     

消费信贷与贵州民族文化保护研究

民族文化传承的主体是作为农村核心经济组织的家庭,而载体主要是婚丧嫁娶等仪式.贵州民族文化保护的对象就是由此而形成的各种礼仪.研究民族文化仪式的投融资问题是保护贵州民族文化的关键所在.开展消费信贷不仅可以使基于仪式的民族文化得以传承,对规范农村信贷市场、促进农村经济发展也将起到重要作用.