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<p><font face="Verdana">The most well known is here: <a
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<p><font face="Verdana">In nearly all of them you can walk in yes.
The Kasubi Tombs, mentioned above are definitively tombs as
being structures build to contain and commemorate human
remains. But as said before, many are not that strict complying
with the definition.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Actually, the central Kasubi Tombs contain
only the remains of the last 4 kings. Before, it was a cultural
tradition to put the jawbone in a separate structure, more
considered like a shrine although many of them just look the
same, more like a shrine in the same tafted hut structure and
named by the British as a tomb. These separate shrines believed
to contain the deceased's spirit. Of course one can argue that
it is just like a tomb, a structure with human remains
(although it's just the jawbone) and the spirit. However, the
body is in a different location in a different tomb.<br>
Other tribes, as said before, even have different traditions.
Many of them don't contain bodies, just artificats remembering
them of the deceased, so tomb definitively doesn't go there in
the pure sense, referring to human remains. However, the spirit
is considered as the most important "body part" although not
material, but materialised through the artefacts or the jawbone.<br>
It's a very delicate issue and we don't really have an English
word to describe this, at least not as far as I know. And as
you understand, the British colonialists tradition of calling
them all tombs is also a sensitive issue, as it was imposed by a
colonial ruler, without consent of the different local tribes.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">I had to contact Wikipedia to find out what
is a cenotaph. I surely think it is, in it's pure materialistic
definition, a similar feature. However the tombs here are not
empty, they contain the spirits, which for all of these local
cultures is the most important body part or human remain. So
from more cultural respect point of view, I wouldn't use any
definition as "empty" - not containing human remains, as
suitable.<br>
That of course doesn't solve the issue here, find a suitable
English term for OSM to use as a value in tagging, but so far I
am out of ideas, any hints or tips are very welcome.<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Greetings,</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Bert Araali</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/02/2021 01:03, Martin
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<p><font face="Verdana"> So there is no common practice to
tag these, what is your general opinion and best
tagging practice for these examples ?</font></p>
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<div>it seems they could be seen as cenotaphs and
historic=monument could apply. I did not find any
monument=cenotaph, but there are 3 memorial=cenotaph. From
what you tell, the monument tag seems more appropriate (you
can walk into them, they are not just plates or similar).</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Martin<br>
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