title: The birth of a multicultural funeral home.
abstract: In 2014, the Dutch Funeral Organization Yarden started with the participatory preparations for a multicultural funeral home. The project aims at a 24/7 service for the super-diverse population of Amsterdam and beyond. This article gives an ethnographic account of Yarden's efforts to capture cultural diversity. It explores how a multicultural gaze creates a power/knowledge dynamic producing new discourses and shaping new layers of significance. The study then turns into arguing that the birth of the multicultural home is, above all, a cultural, collaborative search leaving (counter-discursive) space for creativity, change, and cultural renewal of all actors involved.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Cultural Anthropology , Utrecht University , Utrecht , the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Yvon
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: van der Pijl
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005655:Funeral Rites / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans