Japanese tree burial : ecology, kinship and the culture of death /
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Author / Creator: | Boret, Sébastien Penmellen, author. |
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Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014. |
Description: | xvii, 219 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Japan anthropology workshop series ; 23 Japan anthropology workshop series ; 23. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9980882 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: questions for the anthropology of tree disposals
- 2. The birth of Japanese Tree-Burial: when life crisis meets environmental crisis
- 3. Kinship, demographic and economic matters: renouncing the ancestral grave
- 4. Identities, memorialization and agency: 'people's own grave'
- 5. Bonds, nature workshops and collective memorials
- 6. Ecological immortality and ideas of the afterlife
- 7. Conclusions: towards a liberalization of death in Japan?
- Index