Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices surrounding grieving, burial, and ritual in Japan as the old custom of family-based graves and mortuary care is coming undone.
Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices surrounding grieving, burial, and ritual in Japan as the old custom of family-based graves and mortuary care is coming undone.
Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of Precarious Japan, also published by Duke University Press, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club.
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Prelude ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Histories 1. Ambiguous Bones: Dead in the Past 25 2. The Popular Industry of Death: From Godzilla to the Ending Business 47 Preparations 3. Caring (Differently) for the Dead 73 4. Preparedness: A Biopolitics of Making Life Out of Death 99 Departures 5. The Smell of Lonely Death and the Work of Cleaning It Up 123 6. De-parting: The Handling of Remaindered Remains 149 Machines 7. Automated Graves: The Precarity and Prosthetics of Caring for the Dead 173 Epilogue 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 215 Index 231
Prelude ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Histories 1. Ambiguous Bones: Dead in the Past 25 2. The Popular Industry of Death: From Godzilla to the Ending Business 47 Preparations 3. Caring (Differently) for the Dead 73 4. Preparedness: A Biopolitics of Making Life Out of Death 99 Departures 5. The Smell of Lonely Death and the Work of Cleaning It Up 123 6. De-parting: The Handling of Remaindered Remains 149 Machines 7. Automated Graves: The Precarity and Prosthetics of Caring for the Dead 173 Epilogue 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 215 Index 231
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