:: UL Anthropology Society presents ::

Virtual Guest Speaker Series

Spring 2021- Archives

This site serves as an archival database of information from past speakers. The material available is only to be used non-commercially. We do encourage the material to be used for anthropological outreach and educational purposes. Appropriate citations must be used. All credit is to be directed to the anthropologists themselves. We thank each of our guest speakers for volunteering their time, energy, resources, and intellect to serve our academic community.

MiloRhys K Teplin (he/him) is a Bennington College alumnus and a 2nd year graduate student at the University of Houston. His work in the Anthropology Department focuses on ritual practices of contemporary Paganism, particularly in regards to funerary ritual. He has also been doing work on how indigenous peoples and minorities reclaim their personal cultural identity through religion, both publicly and privately.

Provisional Reference Material:

The article below has been provided by Milo Teplin to be used as reference material in preparation of his presentation. Please take care to cite appropriately and give necessary credit if you intend to use these publications as source material. Thank you.

Suggested Further Reading List:

Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, 1988.

Ogden, Daniel. Greek and Roman Necromancy. United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Tarrant, R. J. "Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep." Classical Philology 77, no. 1 (1982): 51-55. Accessed March 1, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/269807.

Tsiaras, Alexander., Danforth, Loring M.. The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. United States: Princeton University Press, 2020.