Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden Buried at Sea

As a student of colonial American mortuary culture, I generally have very little to say about modern foreign policy, but my ears perked up when I heard that Osama bin Laden was buried at sea. This seems to have been done so that his gravesite would not become a shrine for his followers. Burials continue to be important public, political statements.

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