When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan

Author:   Hannah Gould
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
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9780226829012


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 December 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Hannah Gould
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780226829012


ISBN 10:   0226829014
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Textual Conventions Introduction: The Stuff of Death and the Death of Stuff 1. Crafting 2. Retail 3. Practice 4. Disposal 5. Remaking Conclusion: When Death Falls Apart Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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“From graves for abandoned gravestones to the craft and care by which workers tend to butsudan still today, this book is an electrifying read. Ethnographically intimate, analytically astute, and refreshingly clear, When Death Falls Apart brilliantly tracks both the challenges and attachments to necro-care as once practiced and getting recrafted today.” * Anne Allison, author of Being Dead Otherwise * “When Death Falls Apart is well-crafted and thoughtful, and it significantly advances scholarship on death studies. At the same time, Gould’s excellent study is a model for rich anthropological description of particular people, places, and objects that challenge the reader to think about other places, other deaths, and other bodies.” * S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5½ Objects *


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Hannah Gould is a Melbourne Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Social and Political Sciences and a member of the DeathTech Research Team at the University of Melbourne. She is president of the Australian Death Studies Society, coeditor of Aromas of Asia, and coauthor of Death and Funerary Practices in Japan.

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