This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 26th Jan 2017
Every month, an iconoclastic group of Londoners gather at a site in Southwark known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of mediaeval prostitutes believed to be buried there the Winchester Geese. This is a pilgrimage site for self-identified misfits, nonconformists and contemporary sex workers who leave memorials to the outcast dead. The ritual interpretation of the history of the site has struck a chord with many who feel alienated in present-day London.
Oxford anthropologist Prof Sondra L Hausner looks at the historical practices of sex work, the relation of the Church to these professions, and their representation in the present, arguing that ritual is a way of creating the contemporary world by mobilising stories of the past
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2017-01-26 2017-01-26 Europe/London The Spirits Of Crossbones Graveyard Oxford anthropologist Prof Sondra L Hausner looks at the historical practices of sex work, the relation of the Church to these professions, and their representation in the present, https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2017/01/26/the-spirits-of-crossbones-graveyard-121394 The Bell,50 Middlesex Street,London,LondonLocation
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