Sébastien Penmellen Boret

Japanese Tree Burial (eBook, ePUB)

Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tree burial has become highly popular, and is a highly-effective means of promoting the rehabilitation of Japanese forestland critically damaged by post-war government mismanagement. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the phenomenon of tree burial, tracing its development, discussing the factors which motivate Japanese people to choose tree burial, and examining the impact of tree burial on traditional views of death, memorialisation, and the afterlife.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317912439
• Artikelnr.: 40528560

Autorenporträt

Sébastien Penmellen Boret is a research fellow at Oxford Brookes and a research associate at Oxford University. He holds currently a post-doctoral fellowship (2012-2014) at Tohoku University where he leads a project about the politics of memorialisation of the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami and is a contributor to Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan (Routledge 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Forward Preface by Joy Hendry Prologue 1. Introduction: Questions for the
Anthropology of Tree Disposals 2. The Birth of Japanese Tree-Burial 3.
Kinship, Demographic and Economic Matters 4. Identities, Memorialisation
and Agency 5. Bonds, Nature Workshops and Collective Memorials 6.
Ecological Immortality and Ideas of the Afterlife 7. Conclusions: Towards a
liberalization of death in Japan?