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Family change and the life course in Japan
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ISBN: 0939657449 Year: 1988 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US
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ISBN: 1134594135 1280069651 0203464478 0203249623 9780203249628 9780203464472 9780415223522 0415223520 9786610069651 6610069654 9781134594139 9781134594085 1134594089 9781134594122 1134594127 9780415510721 0415510724 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States to explicitly compare how policies, practices and interpretations of elder care are evolving at the turn of the century.

Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life
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ISBN: 0824829107 0824829646 9780824829100 9780824829643 0824843967 Year: 2005 Publisher: Honolulu (Hawaii) : University of Hawaii press,

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Lives in motion : composing circles of self and community in Japan
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ISBN: 1885445466 9781885445469 1885445067 9781885445063 Year: 1999 Publisher: Ithaca East Asia Program, Cornell University

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This volume explores the diversity of contemporary Japanese society by studying how people "compose" their families, their communities, and their own identities. Challenging fixed boundaries characteristic of institutional analysis, these essays comprise an anthropology of real people who age, who play, and whose lives speak to ours even over chasms of cultural differences and misunderstandings. The contributors are historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of Japan who engage these ideas in their research and who have been inspired over the years by the spirit of David Plath's anthropology of self. [from publisher's advertisement].


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ISBN: 9780824843960 Year: 2005 Publisher: Honolulu

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Final Days : Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life
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ISBN: 9780824843960 9780824829643 Year: 2005 Publisher: Honolulu, Hawaii University of Hawaii Press

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Death in the Early Twenty-first Century : Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
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ISBN: 3319523651 3319523643 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse religious heritages and secular value systems. The book demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved, funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.


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Capturing contemporary Japan : differentiation and uncertainty
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ISBN: 9780824838690 9780824838683 Year: 2014 Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press,

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Death in the Early Twenty-first Century : Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
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ISBN: 9783319523651 3319523651 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse religious heritages and secular value systems. The book demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved, funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.


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Capturing Contemporary Japan
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ISBN: 0824868897 082483870X 9780824838706 0824838688 Year: 2014 Publisher: Honolulu

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What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the "professional" housewife, managed the domestic sphere and the children, who were educated in a system that provided a path to mainstream success. In the past twenty years, however, Japanese society has seen a sharp increase in precarious forms of employment, higher divorce rates, and a widening gap between haves and have-nots. Contributors draw on rich, nuanced fieldwork data collected during the 2000s to examine work, schooling, family and marital relations, child rearing, entertainment, lifestyle choices, community support, consumption and waste, material culture, well-being, aging, death and memorial rites, and sexuality. The voices in these pages vary widely: They include schoolchildren, teenagers, career women, unmarried women, young mothers, people with disabilities, small business owners, organic farmers, retirees, and the elderly.

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