Being Dead Otherwise /

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"With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where their descendants would tend their spirits and individuals are increasingly taking...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Allison, Anne, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death > Social aspects.
Death care industry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Japan.
Death care industry > Japan.
Death > Social aspects > Japan.
Japan.
Japan > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ambiguous bones : dead in the past
  • The popular industry of death : from Godzilla to the ending business
  • Caring (differently) for the dead
  • Preparedness : a biopolitics of making life out of death
  • The smell of lonely death and the work of cleaning it up
  • De-parting : the handling of remaindered remains
  • Automated graves : the precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead.

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