The Beginning

My name is Helen Ellison and I am a third year Anthropology and Sociology major from Uvic.  I decided to take this course as while looking through the courses offered this semester the title grabbed my eye as well as the help complete my Archeology requirement for my Anthropology major.  I have always been interested in how people not only treat the dead but how death is received by the different cultures whether negative or positive.  Also the insights into a culture which can be obtained through studying how they treated their dead.  I am interested in Maori and the different peoples of the British Iles and their changing funerary rights.