Modern Passings : Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan /

What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As Japanese...

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Author / Creator: Bernstein, Andrew (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006]
Series:Study of the weatherhead East Head institute
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