Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death...doi:10.1080/13576275.2015.1098603Rots, Aike P.Nanzan UniversityJapanese Journal of Religious StudiesBoret, Sebastien. 2014. Japanese tree burial: Ecology, kinship and the culture of death. Abingdon: ...
She deals with themes such as conscripts and battlefield death, war commemoration, heroic myths, and war in popular culture. Challenging the orthodox view of Meiji Japan as monolithic, she shows that there existed a complex and ambivalent relationship between the Japanese state and society....
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Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death The social and cultural construction of death and rituals that surround it have long engaged anthropologists. Far from immutably set in stone, mortuary practices are subject to ongoing negotiation and adjustment, providing valuable insig...
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