Allison Being Dead Otherwise

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2441-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allison, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.