Death in the early twenty-first century : authority, innovation, and mortuary rites
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Death in the early twenty-first century : authority, innovation, and mortuary rites
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Death in the early 21st century
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse religious heritages and secular value systems. The book demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved, funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I: Culture, Religion and the Uses of Tradition
2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloe (Chile)
3. Quelling the "Unquiet Dead": Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR
5. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China
Part II: Personhood, Memory and Technology
5. Reincarnation, Christianity, and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old: Death Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda
7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work
Part III: Individual, Choice, and Identity
8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States
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