ISBN:
9780415517065
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
Series Statement:
Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Japanese Tree Burial : Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death
DDC:
393
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temple in northern Japan. Instead of a conventional family gravestone, perpetuating the continuity of a household and its identity, tree burial uses vast woodlands as cemeteries, with each burial spot marked by a tree and a small wooden tablet inscribed with the name of the deceased. Tree burial is gaining popularity, and is a highly-effective means of promoting the rehabilitation of Japanese forestland critically damaged by post-war government misma
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: questions for the anthropology of tree disposals; 2 The birth of Japanese Tree-Burial: when life crisis meets environmental crisis; 3 Kinship, demographic and economic matters: renouncing the ancestral grave; 4 Identities, memorialization and agency: 'people's own grave'; 5 Bonds, nature workshops and collective memorials; 6 Ecological immortality and ideas of the afterlife; 7 Conclusions: towards a liberalization of death in Japan?
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
