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Bones of Contention : Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan /

"Since the 1990s the Japanese pet industry has grown to a trillion-yen business and estimates place the number of pets above the number of children under the age of fifteen. There are between 6,000 to 8,000 businesses in the Japanese pet funeral industry, including more than 900 pet cemeteries....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ambros, Barbara, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Order, karma, and kinship : animals in Japanese history and culture
  • Masking commodification and sacralizing consumption : the emergence of animal memorial rites
  • Pets, death, and taxes : the legal boundaries of religion
  • Embodying hybridity : the necrogeography of pet memorial spaces
  • Vengeful spirits or loving spiritual companions? : changing views of pet spirits.