 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
MODERN PASSINGS
DEATH RITES, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN IMPERIAL JAPAN |
| By: |
Andrew Bernstein |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£40.95 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0824828747 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780824828745 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2006 |
| Edition: |
Annotated edition |
| Series: |
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Following an overview of the early development of funerary rituals in Japan, this work demonstrates how diverse premodern practices from different regions and social strata were homogenized with those generated by middle-class city dwellers. It also explores the conflict-filled process of remaking burial practices. |
| Synopsis: |
In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As the Japanese coped with the economic, political, and social changes that radically remade their lives in the decades after the Meiji Restoration (1868), they clung to local customs and Buddhist rituals such as sutra readings and incense offerings that for generations had given meaning to death. Yet death, as this highly original study shows, was not impervious to nationalism, capitalism, and the other isms that constituted and still constitute modernity. As Japan changed, so did its handling of the inevitable. Following an overview of the early development of funerary rituals in Japan, Andrew Bernstein demonstrates how diverse premodern practices from different regions and social strata were homogenized with those generated by middle-class city dwellers to create the form of funerary practice dominant today.He also explores the conflict-filled process of remaking burial practices, which gave rise, in part, to the suburban "soul parks" now prevalent throughout Japan; the (largely failed) attempt by nativists to replace Buddhist death rites with Shinto ones; and the rise and fall of the funeral procession. |
| Illustrations: |
13 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Hawai'i Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|