Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 185749944
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- ISBN
- 9780813565163
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the culmination of over two-years of ethnographic fieldwork involving 100+ hours of interviews conducted in Japanese looking at ritual in the lives of elders. It brings together a large body of work on ageing and dying with anthropological and literary texts on ritual practice. It critiques western biomedical narratives of ageing by demonstrating the generative effects of ritual practice in the lives of Japanese elders. This is illustrated through detailed case studies and observations of a wide range of everyday ritual practice ranging from intimate idiosyncratic practices in the home to large historical community events.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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