{"product_id":"being-dead-otherwise-anne-allison-9781478019848","title":"Being Dead Otherwise","description":"With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In \u003ci\u003eBeing Dead Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the proliferation of new industries, services, initiatives, and businesses that offer alternative means---ranging from automated graves, collective grave sites, and crematoria to one-stop mortuary complexes and robotic priests---for tending to the dead. These new burial and ritual practices provide alternatives to long-standing traditions of burial and commemoration of the dead. In charting this shifting ecology of death, Allison outlines the potential of these solutions to radically reorient sociality in Japan in ways that will impact how we think about the end of life, identity, tradition, and culture in Japan and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Allison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478019840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478019848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.63d","brand":"Anne Allison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071497597183,"sku":"9781478019848","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9654f6a-0912-4ca4-9cfa-d122744c0801.jpg?v=1685436451","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/being-dead-otherwise-anne-allison-9781478019848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}