Category talk:Burials in Oregon

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I find the Oregon culture category for this category problematic, as the culture cats seem mostly to have to do with the arts. I guess I'm thinking burials aren't necessarily Oregon-specific, in other words, it's not like the have a special way of burying people here. But I can't think of someplace else that makes sense, especially since not all these folks are actually from Oregon. Otherwise I'd say put it in

I added it after seeing Category:Burials in the United States by state in the Category:American culture by state. It makes some sense, in that burials (or disposition of the dead in general) are a cultural thing. Take India where they burn them with pyres, or in the US where we putem in a coffin (or burn them in incinerators). A lot of what we learn about past cultures is from how they buried their dead. A lot of archeologists work is excavating graves, and archeologists are basically cultural historians. It's not the best fit, and I'm not sold on it, but I see the reasoning why the parent cat has it. Anybody else have some thoughts? Aboutmovies (talk) 07:08, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. I think the problem mostly is that it's not entirely clear what the Culture categories are supposed be for. I should go find out if anybody knows. But I'm sort of burnt out on talking about categories right now though...

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Burnt out? But why? Like most cats (law perhaps?), the culture cat seems a bit vague. Plus things like history of Oregon and sports in Oregon are not in there, and why is Military in Oregon in the

category cabalists will come along and straighten us out? Aboutmovies (talk) 07:54, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply

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