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Being Dead Otherwise

Autor Anne Allison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2023
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478019848
ISBN-10: 1478019840
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 19 illustrations, including 8 in color
Dimensiuni: 153 x 231 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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Cuprins

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